Ecuador's president looks to remove Supreme Court

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QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) -- Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez called on Sunday for Congress to study removing the Supreme Court, which is dominated by members of opposition parties that tried to impeach him last month.

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The dismissal of the court would be the latest move by Gutierrez to wrest power from his political foes.

In late November, the Congress voted to remove pro-opposition members of the constitutional and electoral courts. They were immediately replaced by Gutierrez allies.

That vote came after Gutierrez survived an early November impeachment attempt when opposition parties failed to muster the votes to oust him.

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