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We are all citizens
What is it to be a citizen?
In 2008 the Constitution maintained the principle of universal citizenship and expanded it in some way so that the status of foreigner is progressively eliminated.
But it was only in 1928 that a woman's vote was established, thanks to the struggle of prominent figures such as Matilde Hidalgo de Procel.
The Ecuadorian citizenship is what makes us part of the country, although for the exercise of certain rights to choose and be elected.
Those over 21, male, literate, who had permanent income or property and who were neither servants nor employees of others, were considered citizens.
It has expanded in a historical process of extension of democracy.
Education for citizenship
Our country has suffered a deterioration, crime has increased and people feel a lot of insecurity. Despite government efforts, drug trafficking and consumption is growing.
The most effective guarantee of security and the best precaution against crime is to attack it at its bases.
The democratic future of Ecuador requires, in addition to adequate representation and exercise of rights, conditions that guarantee minimum levels of subsistence, access to adequate conditions and decent work for all.
Democracy is the promotion of education, which prepares citizens for life and work.
Consolidating a vision of the country, its reality and its future, health services are a basic element in the development of democracy.
What is it to be a citizen?
The Constitution and the exceptional law, but by recognizing ourselves as citizens, a principle of equality, the foundation of democracy and national unity.
A great step was taken, since, in addition to modernizing a fundamental institution, the foundations have been laid for the consolidation of an element of national unity beyond diversities.
And it takes time, because it is a process that involves not only a change of statements but, above all, of attitudes.
We are all equal when we enjoy the same rights and have the same obligations.
The new constitution: the guarantee of human rights to achieve a good living
It is a constitutional State of rights and justice, social, democratic, sovereign, independent, intercultural, plurinational and secular.
Of the rights they exercised responsibilities within the framework of interculturality and harmonious coexistence is a condition of Good Living
