Bolivian President Forms 1st
Plural-National Cabinet
La Paz - Bolivian President Evo
Morales formed the country's first plural-national cabinet Sunday,
calling on it to work toward the implementation of the new
Constitution, enacted Saturday.
"Our obligation now is to set the new Political Constitution of the
Bolivian State," Morales said during the swearing-in ceremony of the
cabinet at the presidential Quemado Palace.
The new cabinet consists of 20 ministries, with new members
including Julia Ramos Sanchez, of the Rural Development and Lands
Ministry, and Calixto Chipana Calizaza, of the Labor and Social
Prevention Ministry.
Morales urged the new cabinet to display a "bigger social
conscience, political and ideological compromise and professional
capacity" to attend to its new tasks.
"We must start to change everything if we want to change Bolivia.
That change begins from the president, vice president, followed by
you (ministers) ...Here we do not come to be famous, here we come to
work. We are not here for money, but for the homeland....(We want)
the cabinet to give answers to the Bolivian people," he added.
On Saturday, Morales promulgated Bolivia's new constitution, which
was approved by 61 percent of voters in a Jan. 25 referendum.
As the South American nation's first constitution to be approved by
popular vote, it would give more power to Bolivia's indigenous
majority, promote agricultural land reform and allow Morales to seek
re-election.
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