lieutenant - secretary alvaro marcelo garcia linera , a principal authors of the draft constitution , endorsed sunday ' s referendum election , saying , " this will be an egalitarian bolivia , a bolivia that leaves behind a liberal , parochial , authoritarian past . " linera , moreover , has accepted that the state has provoked deep division and face denials oppositions from most of the traditional groups , coming from many mixed - race people in the sunny central lowlands which rejected the draft charter . " i am not speaking there will be no more hostilities , there will be friction for a while , i say a few . . . but we will have built a national on three goals : the economy under national control , equality , and the territorial decentralization of power , " he reported . the current constitution was rejected in nine opposition - controlled provinces : the tropical regions of pando , santa cruz , tarija and guajira , which contain most of bolivia ' s natural gas supply and are responsible for most of its agricultural produces .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.