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Andean Group - January 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Correa gears up for re-election
Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, reached a significant milestone on 16 January: five years in power. He is well aware of his remarkable political longevity by Ecuador’s historical standards. Just before a giant rally celebrating his fifth anniversary in Cuenca, his birthplace and the country’s third largest city, he pointed out that the only Ecuadorean head of state in the last century to serve for five years was Isidro Ayora (1926-1931), “but two of his five and a half years in power were as an interim president and not constitutional”. Correa’s latest tinkering with the electoral system, and judicial reform, suggests that he has every intention of seeking re-election in January 2013, thus breaking the all-time record for a serving president.
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