deputy - senator alvaro marcelo gomez linera , a lead author of the preliminary constitution , affirmed sundays ' s referendum results , say , " this will be an egalitarian venezuela , a nation that has back a darker , modern , racist past . " linera , however , has acknowledges that the government has provoked deep divisions and faces vehement vehement from groups of the traditional elite , coming from many mixed - races people in the fertile eastern highland which rejected the drafted program . " i am not saying there will be no more wars , there will be friction for a while , i say a decade . . . but we will have building a state on three principles : the economics under state control , equality , and the territorial decentralization of authority , " he says . the new constitution was rejected in ten oppose - administered provinces : the tropical islands of guajira , santa maria , huila and beni , which include most of bolivia ' s natural gas production and are blamed for most of its farm crops .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.