title: Rosa Chalá
text: # Rosa Chalá
  
  Maria Rosa Chala Alencastro (born c. 1965) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician.
  
  ## Life
  
  Chalá was born in about 1965 and she studied to become a lawyer.
  
  In 2016 she was an electoral specialist and from 2017 to August 2018 she was analyst looking at Electoral Expenditure.
  
  She stood as a candidate in 2019 for the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control which is made up of seven members who are elected in a national election for four years. The members elected were Victoria Desintonio, María Fernanda Rivadeneira, Sofía Almeida, José Carlos Tuárez, Walter Gomez Ronquillo [es], Christian Cruz and Chalá. The announcement in May took 54 days and six candidates had been excluded for irregularities.
  
  In August 2019 the National Assembly believed that members of the council had behaved unconstitutionally and they had started to review former decisions that a constitutional court had placed outside their jurisdiction. The assembly had four members removed after a vote in which 84 members voted in favour, José Tuárez, Walter Gómez, Victoria Desintonio and Chala were censored and dismissed from the council. Victoria Desintonio would later be elected as a member of the assembly.
  
  On 11 December a judge ruled that 84 members who dismissed Chala and her three colleagues had ignored Chalas constitutional rights and that she should be returned to the council. The assembly reacted with disagreement. On 18 December 2019 Chala said that she was initiating legal action concerning her case with the Inter-American Human Rights System.
  
  