This Sunday, Sanchez de Lozada reappeared in different Bolivian media with the proposal to reform the Constitution to eliminate the Plurinational State and reestablish the neoliberal Republic.
The ex-head of State added in his proposal that legislators and senators should have the power to appoint the figure of a PM.
President Arce warned that, “Sanchez de Lozada currently aims to discuss a retrograde form of State where the Plurinational be extinguished, where privileges return for a few, where democracy be mutilated, and turned once again into a State that only a few economic groups can control.”
The president reaffirmed his commitment to the “unwavering defense” of the Plurinational State.
In this regard, the leader added that by doing so, Bolivia guarantees nations’ rights, intercultural democracy, the Social Community Productive Economic Model and growing with social justice and the Welfare of the peoples.
Sanchez de Lozada and his former Minister of Defense Carlos Sanchez Berzain are identified as responsible for a helicopter bombing against the town of El Alto in 2003, which left nearly 70 deaths and hundreds wounded.
Due to such a crime, both are facing a civil trial in the United States because of a lawsuit filed by the victims’ relatives.
This Sunday, the president of the Chamber of Deputies Jerges Mercado warned of an external and internal conspiracy against the Arce’s Government, attempts that the current president managed to prevent with the backing of those who support the political, economic and social measures of his Executive.
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