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Weekly Report - 17 February 2011 (WR-11-07)
ECUADOR: Correa gets his referendum
“They are trying to rob us of our referendum," President Rafael
Correa shouted to some 1,000 supporters gathered outside the Carondelet palace
on 10 February. Whether or not “they", the nine constitutional court (CC)
justices, were intimidated by this is a moot point, but a two-thirds majority
voted to approve the referendum five days later. Battle will now be joined in
earnest. Between now and a probable referendum date in May, Correa will run a
surrogate election campaign and the opposition, which is being led by some of
the founding members of his ruling Acuerdo País (AP), will argue that four of
the referendum questions related to constitutional reforms violate the
constitution drawn up by Correa's constituent assembly in 2008.
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