Ecuador: Ruling Party proposes 17 amendments to constitution

dw.de reported the ruling Alliance country proposes to amend on 17 points the Constitution of Ecuador. The most striking of them: allow indefinite re-election. What it would mean for the country’s democracy approval?

Rafael Correa took office in 2007, after a decade marked by a severe economic crisis and the release of seven Presidents. Very popular even after 2 re-elections, the charismatic economist will arrive in 2017 to comply with a decade in power. And it could be more. The amendments proposed by his Alianza País party would eliminate the possibility of being re-elected only once of the 2008 Constitution.

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Although the Ecuadorian President has stressed repeatedly to not be presented to the elections in 2017, this small change in the Magna Carta – a joint work of the political forces that brought him to power and that in part they are no longer its allies–would allow him to continue taking the reins of his “citizen revolution”. Read Article