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Bolivia Shapes New State
The approval of a debate
regulation has challenged the
Bolivian Constituent Assembly to
shape a new multinational State
without exclusions amid the
threat of regional authorities
to divide the country.
Representative of the Movement
towards Socialism (MAS) Raul
Prada considers that the setting
of absolute majority for the
endorsement of the articles and
two thirds for the final text of
the future Constitution, the
background matter of creating a
new Republic comes up.
That project, he stated, must
start from the present crisis
within the relation
colonial-State and society and
must meet the demands
of the social movements to
restructure a country
recognizing diversity and the
multiple institutional forms.
According to Prada, the late
State and its archaic
institutions were plunged into
crisis, excluded the regions and
the native peoples and finally
sparked violence.
So, it is not surprising that
since its beginning, on August 6
in the southern city of Sucre,
the Constituent Assembly has
been hounded by conservative
sectors and powerful groups
intended to make it work under
the old models.
Prada asserted that since the
social revolution leading to the
defeat of the ex-dignitary
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in
2003, the old system and the
traditional parties supporting
it also collapsed.
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