vice - leader alvaro marcelo che linera , a principal author of the draft constitution , praised tuesday ' s referendum results , adding , " this will be an egalitarian bolivia , a bolivia that leaves alone a dark , colonial , racist environment . " linera , however , has acknowledged that the government has provoked some resentment and faces objections oppositions from representatives of the national aristocracy , coming from some mixed - race people in the fertile eastern highlands , rejected the draft charter . " i am not thinking there will be no more disputes , there will be turmoil for a while , i say a lifetime . . . but we will have build a government on three grounds : the industry under central control , unity , and the territorial decentralization of power , " he added . the old republic was defeated in five opposition - controlled regions : the tropical lowlands of beni , santa cruz , tarija and beni , which hold most of bolivia ' s natural gas production and are accountable for most of its energy inputs .
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera belongs to the republican party.