ecuador - ICYE
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ecuador - ICYE
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GOVERNMENT<br />
President Rafael Correa<br />
Ecuador has been a democracy since 1979. The political<br />
situation in the late 1990s and early 2000s was very<br />
unstable, a condition which sparked three presidents’<br />
ousting. However, there has been an increase in stability in<br />
the past 5 years, since the election of Rafael Correa, who<br />
was officially declared president of Ecuador on December 4,<br />
2006 and sworn in on January 15, 2007 as the 56th<br />
president of Ecuador. President Correa is the 9th to occupy<br />
the post since 1996.<br />
Since Correa assumed office, his main goal was to transform<br />
the Ecuadorian political system through a Citizen Revolution<br />
(“Revolución Ciudadana”) .<br />
On April 15 th , 2007 Correa called for a national referendum<br />
and 81.7% of voters supported the establishment of a<br />
Constitutional Assembly, whose aim was to create a new<br />
National Constitution. The new Constitution was approved by<br />
more than 63 % of the population.
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