Ecuador President Correa hints at 2017 re-election bid
Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Saturday said he may seek re-election in 2017, despite previously supporting constitutional measures limiting the country's leader to only two consecutive terms.
Correa said in his weekly radio address he was considering running for office after local elections last week saw his ruling Alianza Pais party suffer a series of reverses.
In office since 2007, the socialist president, one of the most prominent leftist Latin American leaders, was re-elected in February 2013 for a second four-year term, the last allowed under the constitution.
Correa's party, which has an absolute majority in Ecuador's congress, plans to introduce a constitutional amendment which would allow the leader to stand again.
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