37% of the population supports the new constitution and 33% rejected, says survey

The new constitution sponsored by an official majority in the Constituent Assembly and will be put to referendum in September would be approved by 37% of the population, according to a survey of voting intention of Cedatos-Gallup International.

The report released today indicates that 33% of respondents anticipated that `` no''vote and 30% did not require your response or favoured the vote invalid or blank.

With regard to a poll conducted two weeks ago, the votes for the "yes" fell from 41% to 37%, the negative vote increased from 31% to 33% and responses undecided or in favor of zero or white rose from 28% to 30 %.

The survey asked people to explain how they would vote if the referendum was the day that he was subjected to the survey.

The study was conducted between May 29 and June 6 at 1 271 interviews with people in the seven most important cities in three regions of the country with a margin of error of 3.3%.

The Constituent Assembly controlled by the majority Officer Country Alliance must draft the new constitution in late July.

In a survey by Cedatos conducted in the third week of May, the Assembly had the approval of 37% and 26% said only believe in the word of the assembly. Both percentages showed declining trends.

In his latest study in late April on the popularity of President Rafael Correa, Cedatos reported that enjoys the approval of 58% and has a credibility of 53%.

Since the last few weeks, the agent, in power since January 2007, takes any action in their speeches and public radio and television links for asking people to approve the new constitution.

The articles adopted so far by the Assembly and driven by the assembly officially seeking a greater presence in the state's economy as a regulator and planner.

In the election of April last year, the government's position to install a constituent assembly won with nearly 80% of the votes.

The coordinator between the Assembly and Executive, Augusto Barrera, had said on Monday in the newspaper El Comercio that `` it would be best to repeat the 80%''.

He said that if the Constitution were adopted with the minimum required, half plus one, `` is a Constitution that legally and legitimately win. The optimum would be a triumph loose, but a triumph in democracy is also a tight victory''he added.