Andean Group - November 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)

“We are making history and we will take the Citizen Revolution to victory once again”, declared an exultant President Rafael Correa upon accepting the nomination of the ruling Alianza País (AP) to bid for a third term in office (and his second re-election under the new 2008 constitution). Correa said he accepted the challenge to “head once again this legendary and historic” process. When Correa first ran in 2006, Ecuador was mired in one of the most politically unstable periods in its entire history, having dispatched with seven presidents in a decade. If (as is highly expected) Correa secures a third mandate on 17 February next, one man will have been at the helm of the country for a full decade; a historic feat indeed.

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