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Weekly Report - 1 May 2014 (WR-14-17)
ECUADOR: Mayors accuse Correa of encroaching on autonomy
Political tension between the government of President Rafael Correa and opposition mayors is building. The national assembly is poised to begin debating a new ‘law on territorial organisation’. The government argues that it is necessary to harmonise urban planning regulations nationwide, among other things; the opposition argues it is a deliberate attempt to undercut the autonomy of the country’s municipalities. Jaime Nebot, the long-serving opposition Partido Social Cristiano-Madera de Guerrero (PSC-MG) mayor of Ecuador’s largest city of Guayaquil, has been especially critical, along with Mauricio Rodas, the mayor-elect of Quito representing a new opposition party, Sociedad Unidad Más Acción (Suma), who will take office on 14 May.
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