Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso dissolves Parliament to avoid possible impeachment. Cross-death, as this legal figure is popularly known, is a mechanism that allows the executive and legislative to dissolve each other in advance to call elections.
The decree of dissolution of Lasso is based on a "serious political crisis and internal commotion", one of the three causes that, according to the current Constitution, allows to invoke the cross death. The document signed by the president notified the National Electoral Council (CNE) of its obligation to call the next elections.