Bolivia Congress Urged
for Constitution
LA PAZ -The Bolivian
Congress retakes
Saturday deliberations
to call a referendum on
the new Constitution
amid a massive march for
a decision.
According to the
Republic's Vice
President and top
authority in the
Parliament, Alvaro
Garcia, the special
session was postponed
Thursday as part of
flexibility of the top
represented force in the
Congress, the Movement
towards Socialism.
The initiative is also
aimed at overcoming
differences in the new
constitutional text,
approved in Oruro in
December, the vice
president stated.
He slammed the radical
sector's attitude, which
he termed as minority
and of extreme right,
which aims to block all
the Congress initiative
to reach agreements on
the constitutional
referendum.
Postponements were
announced while over
15,000 people
representing the nine
departments and
different sectors
departed from the
locality of Ayo Ayo to
La Paz, demanding the
constitutional
referendum, a vital
measure to re-found
Bolivia.
Fidel Surco, president
of the National
Coordinator for Change,
organizing the rally,
told Prensa Latina that
the protest has a
peaceful nature, but it
will demand from
Congress a decision on
the new constitution.
The Executive announced
this week in Bolivia
that the stage of siege
created in the Amazonian
region of Pando on
September 12 could last
another 90 days.
The measure was adopted
for a three-month
period, after a massacre
of farmers that killed
18 people and caused 100
to disappear, organized
by the prefecture and
attributed to former top
authority in that
department Leopoldo
Fernandez, now detained
in La Paz.
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