First year

Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook 2007

“The case of Ecuador is here as representative as it is paradoxical. In late 2002 the Congress finally approved the legislation for external voting to be applied during the presidential elections of 2006; however, years before, in April 1987, the Congress had resolved to withdraw from the constitution dispositions on this matter that had been approved three months earlier on the grounds that they were unconstitutional.”