(Reuters) - With 19 percent of ballots counted, 83 percent of voters backed Correa's call for an assembly to rewrite the constitution and strip powers from a Congress they see as tainted for appointing cronies to state firms and the courts.
"This assembly with broad powers could reform the legislative, judicial and even the executive branch," Correa, a leftist and friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said.
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