The wires are reporting this morning that Alberto Acosta, the president of Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly, has resigned.

Various rumors over the past week have indicated that Acosta felt the Assembly needed more than five weeks to clarify some of the language in the new document. Additionally, some have suggested (although this is far from certain) that Acosta was uncomfortable with some of the presidential power in the new constitution. However, as of right now, it is unclear whether those are the reasons for his resignation.

With only a few weeks left to go and opinion polls showing a divided country on the constitutional issue, this could be a minor blow to President Correa. While the president remains personally popular, he needs to win the constitutional referendum later this year to maintain his momentum and political capital.

Acosta and others discussed the new constitution in a Reuters article last week. El Universo had a good article about the debate over the amendment process for the new constitution and whether certain sections should be harder to amend than others.