Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control
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The Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (Spanish: Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social) was created in 2008 in Ecuador. It is an autonomous entity that leads the function of Transparency and Social Control of the Republic of Ecuador. It appoints the people who carry out the role of the Ombudsman, the Comptroller General of the State and the Superintendencies. The seven person council also has influence in the designation of certain authorities of the electoral and judicial function.
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On March 18, 2010, Ecuador's National Assembly appointed seven principal councilors. The seven were Mónica Banegas Cedillo, Marcela Miranda Pérez, Luis Pachala Poma, David Rosero Minda, Fernando Cedeño Rivadeneira, Andrea Rivera Villavicencio and Tatiana Ordeñana Sierra. Sierra was later replaced by Hugo Arias Palacios.[1] On March 25, 2010, in compliance with the constitutional provisions and the Organic Law of Participation, the election took place after a meeting of the Plenary Council and the sociologist Marcela Miranda Pérez and the lawyer Fernando Cedeño being appointed as President and Vice President of the Council respectively and unanimously.[2] Fernando Cedeño was the council's president for 2.5 years until she handed over to a male chair.[3]
