(Reuters) - QUITO, April 15 - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa won an overwhelming victory on Sunday in a referendum that could enable him to wrest power from a Congress reviled as corrupt in the politically unstable country.
With 11 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.
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