vice - president daniel marcelo diaz linera , a principals editor of the draft constitution , hailed sunday ' s referendum results , saying , " this will be an egalitarian bolivia , a bolivia that lives behind a dark , colonization , racism past . " linera , although , has acknowledged that the government has provoked deep tension and faces vehement oppositions from many of the traditional elite , coming from many mixed - race countries in the fertile eastern lowlands which rejected the drafting bill . " i am not saying there will be no more conflict , there will be hostilities for a while , i say a decade . . . but we will have built a state on three principles : the economies under state regulation , equity , and the geographical governance of authority , " he answered . the new constitution was proposed in four opposition - held regions : the tropical lowlands of pando , santa lucia , tarija and oruro , which include most of people ' s natural gas production and are responsible for most of its agricultural produce .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.