Weekly Report - 10 December 2015 (WR-15-49)

Ecuador’s political opposition cannot quite believe what is happening. That the national assembly should have approved on 3 December 15 constitutional reforms, including indefinite re-election, came as no surprise. But the assembly also approved a provision stating that the re-election reform will only take effect after the presidential elections in February 2017 thus barring President Rafael Correa from standing then. With the opposition nonplussed, Correa is now talking about further constitutional reforms.

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