Few would have predicted that the first 100 days of the mandate of Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno would have been so eventful. Moreno’s determination to be his own man, breaking with his predecessor Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in both style and substance, has plunged the ruling left-wing Alianza País (AP) into unprecedented infighting. Moreno now faces the prospect of an AP faction aligned behind his Correísta vice-president, Jorge Glas, who he has denuded of power, providing his government with sterner opposition than the official opposition.
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