Google translation:Rafael Correa, about to make another 4 years in office
Rafael Correa, about to make another 4 years in office
By: WRITING THE TIME (QUITO) |7:07 pm | January 12, 2013
The revitalization of the economy and poverty reduction are the keys.
In Ecuador it is undisputed if Rafael Correa will win the presidential elections next February: the majority of the population now sees him sitting in the chair to rule until 2017 Carondelet.
The question is whether it will in a single round or if any of its seven electoral contenders in the fray achieved climbing in the polls to force a second call to the polls.
In a polarized environment between anticorreístas correístas and without surprises of political leadership, 11.6 million Ecuadorians attend the February 17 to elect the presidential duo, five Andean Parliament and 137 assembly members (legislators). Elections are sui generis, says Gonzalo Ruiz Alvarez, deputy assistant director of the newspaper El Comercio and opinion writer: " It is the third term that arises from the power, something that is alien to the republican tradition, but two cases of regimes nineteenth century caudillo ".
Leading the polls, Correa, defined as a revolutionary socialist, admirer of Bolivar and Che Guevara, and emulating Eloy Alfaro, leader of the liberal revolution of Ecuador, and triumphalism exudes on stage. But Correa calls not only the presidential vote. "A vote todito 35", urges his followers, warning that losing the legislative majority would be a stumbling block to continue their revolution and its regional project XXI Century Socialism, which already mentions him as successor to Chavez.
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