[news] Correa Wins Majority in Ecuador Vote: Move to Left Continues in South America

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Reuters: By Carlos Andrade and Alexandra Valencia

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa's party won an overwhelming majority of seats in Sunday's election for a national assembly to rewrite the constitution, four government ministers told Reuters.

Attacking the old guard as a mafia, Correa wants the assembly to introduce sweeping reforms but foes fear he seeks to amass power and follow ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by turning his Andean country into a socialist state.

  


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