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The constitution is one of the first in the world to recognise the right to food. [9]Article 281, labelled Food Sovereignty, reads: "Food Sovereignty constitutes an objective and strategic obligation from the State to guarantee its people, communities, pueblos and nationalities self sufficiency in healthy food, culturally appropriate in a permanent form."
President Rafael Correa had initially stated he would resign if the constitution were rejected, but later stated he would finish his term. A Cedatos/Gallup poll from May 2008 saw 41% in favour of the constitution draft, 31% against, and 28% not sure. [3] Another Cedatos/Gallup poll from June 2008 showed 37% support. [4]
On January 15, 2007, the social democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a constituent assembly and bringing focus on poverty. [8] The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008. The new ...
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Ecuador has had a total of twenty constitutions over the course of its history, which can be seen as a symptom of Ecuador's chronic instability. After several years of political crisis, the government of Rafael Correa , elected in 2006 following the dismissal of Lucio Gutiérrez by Congress, proposed a new Magna Carta for the country with the ...
Ecuador's government said in a statement on Wednesday that a request by Vice President Veronica Abad that the country's electoral court remove President Daniel Noboa from his post is an attempt at ...
The Ecuadorean president's office said in a statement it had arrested Glas, who was vice president under the leftist government of Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.
In Ecuadorian politics, muerte cruzada (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmweɾte kɾuˈsaða]; ' mutual death ', lit. ' crossed death ') is the name commonly given to a mechanism governing the impeachment of the president of Ecuador and the dissolution of the National Assembly provided for in Articles 130 and 148 of the 2008 Constitution.