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Bolivia Constituent Assembly
Starts Debate
The Bolivian Constituent
Assembly begins on Tuesday its
works, with a decisive debate to
define its powers and
regulations, discussing the
presidential proposal to
implement simple majority and
not two third.
Representatives from all over
the country traveled to Sucre,
which hosts the forum that was
jubilantly opened on August 6,
with massive attendance of
indigenous people from all over
the country.
President Evo Morales suggested
that the Assembly approves the
new Constitution with 50 percent
of the vote plus one of its 255
members, and two thirds
established by the law to elect
the Constituent Assembly
members.
Governing Movement Towards
Socialism (MAS) has the absolute
majority, reaching some 155
seats, with adherence of
delegates from different forces,
but it needs 170 to reach two
thirds.
According to Morales, the
majority established by the law
is used by the traditional
minority political parties to
hinder the Constituent Assembly
and lead it to failure, or to
seek privileges.
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