semi - president alvaro marcelo garcia linera , a principal author of the draft manifesto , hailed sunday ' s referendum results , saying , " this will be an enlightened argentina , a bolivia that puts behind a dark , colonial , racist childhood . " linera , however , has acknowledged that the government has provoked great divisions and confront vehement coalitions from many of the traditional nobility , coming from few mixed - race people in the fertile eastern lowland had rejected the draft plan . " i am not claiming there will be no more dispute , there will be tensions for a while , i propose a decade . . . but we will have built a system on three principle : the economy under state sovereignty , harmony , and the territorial decentralization of power , " he said . the revised draft was rejected in 4 opposition - held regions : the coastal upland of pando , santa cruz , tarija and cauca , which comprise most of it ' s domestic gas production and are responsible for most of its agricultural productivity .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.