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Weekly Report - 8 May 2014 (WR-14-18)

ECUADOR: Final bid to stop drilling in Yasuní fails

President Rafael Correa will not have to prepare his government to face a referendum on his controversial decree last August to drill for oil in the Yasuní national reserve. The national electoral council (CNE) this week threw out the petition by YASunidos, an advocacy group which is spearheading the protest movement against the exploitation of Yasuní, to stage a referendum on the matter after declaring that more than 50% of the signatures it presented were invalid. Polls had suggested that Correa would have faced another electoral setback after the disappointing showing of the ruling Alianza País (AP) in February’s municipal elections.

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