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Andean Group - March 2008 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Constituent Assembly has its hands full

On 3 March Ecuador's National Constituent Assembly resumed work on drafting the articles for the country's new constitution. This got off to a halting start in February when the assembly could not agree on the structure of, or preamble to, the new Magna Carta. In addition to the lack of consensus between the ruling party's majority bloc, Acuerdo Paí­s (AP), and non-government assembly members, external events have been distracting at best and disastrous at worst, hindering progress on the new constitution which the asambleí­stas have only until May to complete.

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