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Weekly Report - 10 August 2017 (WR-17-31)
ECUADOR: Ruling AP faces schism as Moreno fires Glas
Ecuador’s political opposition is looking on in amazement while the ruling left-wing Alianza País (AP) teeters on the brink of an internecine war. The AP’s peerless pre-eminence over the last decade has been shattered within three months of President Lenín Moreno taking office. Moreno’s decision last week to strip Vice-President Jorge Glas of all of his functions, leaving him as no more than an impotent figurehead, set in motion a series of frantic meetings to try and prevent the party from imploding. These meetings have pitted against one another factions loyal to Glas, who has the full and very vocal support of a feverishly tweeting former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), and the Moreno administration.
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