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Weekly Report - 09 November 2017 (WR-17-44)
ECUADOR: Uneasy calm prevails
President Lenín Moreno appears to be gaining the upper hand in the dispute for control of the ruling Alianza País (AP). It could be a pyrrhic victory. Moreno’s ally, José Serrano, the president of the national assembly, emerged from a meeting with AP deputies on 7 November to pronounce “majority support” for Moreno and his proposed referendum, insisting that the party has not “split”. However, although the AP faction loyal to former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) might have been thwarted in its attempt to remove Moreno it remains resolutely opposed to the referendum which, among other things, would bar indefinite re-election, ruling out Correa’s return to power in 2021.
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