Conference on the bicameral legislative system

The Chair of Constitutional Law of the Law School of the UDA organized a conference on the bicameral system, given by Professor Manuel Carrasco Durán of the University of Seville.

The speaker, holder of the chair of Constitutional Law at that Spanish university, is an expert in parliamentary systems.

Currently, the relevance of changing the unicameral model that the current National Assembly has is being debated in Ecuador, and a bicameral legislative power is being proposed as a constitutional reform.

The bicameral system raises the existence of the chamber of deputies and the chamber of senators, also commonly known as the upper house and the lower house.

For Sebastián López, professor of the Chair of Constitutional Law and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Legal Sciences, to adopt this change, the electoral system should first be restructured:

"Currently we have dozens of movements and political parties, therefore, bicamerality is not relevant."

For the UDA professor, bicamerality would increase bureaucracy in the assembly and would not contribute to improving the legislative debate.

The organization of the conference was in charge of Sebastián López, José Chalco Salgado and María Cristina Serrano, professors of Constitutional Law, as a closing activity of the academic cycle.

UDA Correspondent