Ecuadorians favor constitutional assembly

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Nearly two thirds of Ecuadorians polled favor a new constitutional assembly as called for by President Rafael Correa, according to a story published today in the Spanish daily El Pais.

A nationwide plebiscite on a new assembly is scheduled Sunday. Correa’s supporters believe rewriting the unstable country’s constiuttion is the only way out of the political miasma that has resulted in eight presidents in a little more than a decade.

His critics, however, fear the left-leaning former economic professor will use an assembly to gather power, much like his friend Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez used his after assumign office in early 1999.

Posted by Chris Kraul Bogota Bureau Chief