Some 3,100 candidates from Ecuador's 26 political parties began their campaigns on Monday for the election to a Constituent Assembly charged with drafting a new constitution for the nation.
Some 9.2 million Ecuadorians have been registered to choose 130 members of the assembly on Sept. 30. They last voted in an April 2007 referendum on whether the assembly should be set up.
The assembly will have 24 nationwide representatives, 100 provincial representatives and six representing Ecuadorians overseas.
For the first time, the state will pay for all the advertising by the candidates, who were approved by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
The candidates are barred from advertising privately or receiving donations or gifts.
Ecuador's executive and legislative bodies have been at loggerheads with each other, as the government has blamed legislators for trying to block the passage of its reform plans.
Source: Xinhua
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