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Weekly Report - 08 February 2018 (WR-18-05)

ECUADOR: Moreno beats Correa but now needs to deliver

President Lenín Moreno scored an emphatic victory over his predecessor Rafael Correa (2007-2017) on 4 February. Ecuadoreans overwhelmingly voted in favour of all seven questions included in his national referendum despite Correa’s nationwide campaign in recent weeks against two of them in particular. Moreno has also wrested control of the ruling Alianza País (AP) from Correa loyalists, albeit at the cost of his majority in the national assembly. But Moreno’s referendum success owed much to the anti-Correa opposition which will now start taking his government to task.

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