[NYTr] Bolivia's Evo Morales Calls for Referendum on His Presidency

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Bolivia's Evo Morales Calls for Referendum on His Presidency

Havana, December 6 (acn) Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed on 
Wednesday a nationwide referendum on his presidency and the mandates of 
the governors of the country's nine departments, the majority of which 
are part of the opposition, reported Granma Newspaper.

"The people will say who is going and who's staying to guarantee this 
process of change," said Evo while addressing the nation from La Paz.

The president said he would send the proposed bill to the national 
Congress on Thursday asking the legislature to call for the vote. "If 
the people say 'Evo must go,' I've got no problem. I'm democratic," he 
further noticed. The governors of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and 
Cochabamba, all oppossed to the Morales government, reject any type of 
national dialogue and traveled recently to the United States to 
denounce what they call "illegal" actions by Morales and his party in 
Bolivia's Constituent Assembly and the Congress.

"These governors travelled to the United States to complain about the 
mass dictatorship and filled their mouths with democracy while their 
followers in Bolivia assault public offices, silence critical media and 
impose a regime of terror comparable to the military dictatorships of 
the 1980s in Santa Cruz," said the Minister of the Presidency in 
Bolivia Juan Ramon Quintana.