Ecuador cabinet resigns, signals ministry shuffle

QUITO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean cabinet members on Monday handed in their resignations to President Rafael Correa in a procedural move that usually signals changes in some ministries, the government said in a statement.

Left-winger Correa had said he planned cabinet changes after his party secured a convincing win in last month's vote to choose a 130-member assembly to rewrite the constitution.

Cabinet resignations are common in Ecuador, where presidents often reshuffle ministries during their four-year terms. The resignations are meant to show ministerial loyalty to the president.

"The president will analyze each of the posts," Tourism Minister Maria Isabel Salvador said in the presidential statement. "Posts are always under revision."

No changes are expected in the key oil and economy ministries, a presidential spokesman told Reuters.

Correa, a former economy minister, says the new national assembly should dissolve Congress, call for early elections and curtail the powers of traditional political parties widely blamed for years of instability.