then - premier alvaro marcelo garcia linera , a principal authors of the draft constitution , endorsed today ' s referendum efforts , saying , " this will be an egalitarian republic , a bolivia that departed behind a dark , racial , oppressive past . " linera , though , has acknowledging that the opposition has faced deep divisions and faces vehement oppositions from many of the indigenous gentry , and from some mixed - race people in the fertile eastern lowlands whose rejected the draft charter . " i am not saying there will be no more conflict , there will be turmoil for a while , i suggest a decades . . . but we will have built a country on three terms : the government under state supervision , equality , and the territorial decentralization of power , " he said . the drafted amendment was rejected in four opposition - controlled regions : the tropical lowlands of pando , saint cruz , antioquia and beni , which contain most of trinidad ' s natural gas consumption and are responsible for most of its livestock yields .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.