QUITO, (Reuters) – Three members of Ecuador’s governing coalition in Congress have withdrawn their support for President Rafael Correa over his plan to hold a voter referendum he says is aimed at reforming the justice system.
The defections, along with the resignation of two minor cabinet ministers over the plebiscite, will make it more difficult for leftist Correa to gather the 63 votes needed to push his agenda through the 124-member legislature
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Correa proposed a set of constitutional changes this month that he said would improve the way judges are chosen, but which critics argued were really aimed at tightening his
