Sources: Radio Sucre (Quito) and Ecuador public holidays (qppstudio.net). By a vote of 78 for, 4 against, 3 blanks and 22 abstentions, the Ecuador National Assembly voted to make tomorrow, Friday, July 25, 2008, a one-off national public holiday to celebrate the introduction of a new constitutional framework (normally, July 25 is a regional public holiday, not a national public holiday).Technically, the law only provides for the afternoon to be a non-recuperable public holiday, and the civil service is expected to work until 11am, but this seems a pious hope, and our local sources tell us that the entire day is expected to be taken by most, hoping that the topic of the recuperation of the morning will go away.
The constitutional framework document still needs to be sent to the Supreme Court for validation and will then need to be approved by a September 28 referendum.
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