Ecuadorean president wins referendum, barring Correa's hopes of reelection

Tuesday, February 6th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

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Ecuadoreans on Sunday voted to prevent presidents from holding more than two terms in office, according to the elections council, a win for President Lenin Moreno that blocks his mentor-turned-adversary Rafael Correa from returning to power. The results from the referendum, called by Moreno, roll back a measure Correa pushed through Congress in 2015 to allow unlimited presidential re-election. Read full article

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DemonTree
What the heck is going on in Ecuador? Is it some personal thing between Correa and Moreno, or a bigger disagreement on policy?

Reinstating term limits certainly seems like a good thing, but Moreno changing policies away from the ones he campaigned on - with Correa's support - could be. Banning indefinite reelection makes it even more important that people can reply on politicians in the same party to have broadly similar policies, and to do what they say they would once elected.
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Papa
You can draw a parallelism between Correa-Moreno and Santos-Uribe in Colombia
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