Andean Group - January 2007 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Trouble brewing as Correa prepares to take office
An energetic and charismatic campaigner, President-elect Rafael Correa has not let the winning of the presidential election keep him from holding rallies. On 3 January around 10,000 people gathered in the coastal city of Guayaquil to listen to Correa advocate, once again, the idea of a constituent assembly. "We will not allow the dictatorship of anyone," he said. "Here we are a democracy, and this democracy is the property of 13 million Ecuadoreans, not just a few caudillos or political mafias. The people voted for a constituent assembly […] and that is precisely what we will do." The newly sworn in congress, however, appears to have a different idea.
An energetic and charismatic campaigner, President-elect Rafael Correa has not let the winning of the presidential election keep him from holding rallies. On 3 January around 10,000 people gathered in the coastal city of Guayaquil to listen to Correa advocate, once again, the idea of a constituent assembly. "We will not allow the dictatorship of anyone," he said. "Here we are a democracy, and this democracy is the property of 13 million Ecuadoreans, not just a few caudillos or political mafias. The people voted for a constituent assembly […] and that is precisely what we will do." The newly sworn in congress, however, appears to have a different idea.
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