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Ecuador's constitutional reforms highlight both challenges and possibilities

By Edward SanFilippo

Lindsay Green-Barber [PhD Candidate, CUNY]: "Ecuador's President Correa will today sign an executive decree ordering a consulta popular (referendum) to be held within 67 days. While the justices of Ecuador's Corte Constitucional have, with a majority of opinions, deemed President Correa's proposed consulta [Spanish] as constitutional, it remains anything but popular. The debate over the consulta has revealed chasms within the ruling party, Alianza PAIS (Country Alliance; AP), and opened new spaces for critical discussion regarding President Correa's Revolucion Ciudadana (Citizens' Revolution) and the concentration of power in the executive branch of government. Critics of the consulta argue either that all or some of the five questions regarding changes to

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).