{"id":1963,"date":"2007-10-02T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2007-10-02T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:01:50","slug":"correa-claims-victory-in-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/10\/02\/correa-claims-victory-in-assembly-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Correa Claims Victory in Assembly Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests100207\/2007_10_02_martinez.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests100207\/2007_10_02_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/images\/AP_Ecuador_Rafael_Correa_01oct07_210.jpg\"\/><em>GUEST: Mateo Martinez, Political Advisor for the Ecuadoran Government<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa celebrated the overwhelming majority gained by his ruling coalition in Sunday\u2019s constituent assembly elections. As unofficial results continue to come in, President Correa predicted that his ruling Alianza Pais party would take 80 of the 130 available seats. The constituent assembly will convene on October 31 of this year and will have 180 days to rewrite the nation\u2019s constitution. The draft will then have to be ratified by a second national referendum in 2008. Correa\u2019s victory at the polls follows a political crisis earlier this year surrounding the referendum: Ecuador\u2019s Electoral Tribunal approved holding a constitutional referendum and fired 57 lawmakers for trying to block the project. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whom Correa has been unfavorably compared to by detractors, congratulated the Ecuadorian leader on his referendum victory. President Chavez stated that the referendum victory \u201cis how Latin America is moving forward, from victory to victory, from triumph to triumph.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidencia.gov.ec\/\">www.presidencia.gov.ec\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Mateo Martinez, Political Advisor for the Ecuadoran Government Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa celebrated the overwhelming majority gained by his ruling coalition in Sunday\u2019s constituent assembly elections. As unofficial results continue to come in, President Correa predicted that his ruling Alianza Pais party would take 80 of the 130 available seats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}