Morning Star.png Ecuador: Correa to Quit When Current Term Ends The Morning Star, London, 20 November 2015 Ecuador's President Rafael Correa will not seek re-election when his term ends in 2017, his Pais Alliance party announced on Wednesday. The party said that it respected Mr Correa's decision and that it would give a larger role to new political leaders. President Rafael Correa The announcement followed days of debate within the party and 16 proposed constitutional amendments, including one to retain a two-term limit on most elected positions. Mr Correa was first elected in 2007 amid Latin America's "pink tide" and is still extremely popular. Polls in June showed 67 per cent of Ecuadoreans back him, despite violent opposition protests. Under his leadership, the poverty rate has fallen sharply, the minimum wage has more than doubled and the economy has grown steadily. Access to public healthcare has practically tripled, the number of children in primary education has almost doubled and more than 10,000 university scholarships have been awarded - compared to 237 in 1995-2006. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c75e-Ecuador-Correa-to-quit-when-curren t-term-ends#.Vk6dXHYrK00 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
