Weekly Report - 20 September 2012 (WR-12-37)

No sooner had the Left mounted its challenge to President Rafael Correa ahead of next February’s elections than it was cast into considerable doubt. Alberto Acosta, an estranged ally of Correa, was elected to run for the left-wing coalition Coordinadora Plurinacional por la Unidad de las Izquierdas after a national convention on 1 September [WR-12-35]. But, the viability of his candidacy was immediately up in the air after the national electoral tribunal (CNE) announced that it could not register two of the biggest parties within the coalition because many of the signatures they had presented for this purpose had been falsified.

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