Bolivia begins to rewrite constitution
[ 2006-08-07 09:42 ]
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出身于印第安部落的玻利維亞總統莫拉萊斯，一直以來被認為是印第安人心目中的“救世主”，他上臺后在內政外交領域實施了一系列令人矚目的措施。本周日，為維護多數土著印第安人的利益，莫拉萊斯總統召開國民修憲大會，修改承襲了幾個世紀的歐式憲法。
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A Guarani Bolivian mother and her daughter
watch a parade after the inauguration of the country's first
constituent assembly which will redraw the constitution, in Sucre
August 6, 2006. (Reuters)
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President Evo Morales launched his ambitious drive
to give more power and opportunity to Bolivia's Indian majority on Sunday,
officially opening a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the nation's
constitution.
Yampara Indians filed into the packed plaza in colonial Sucre at a
half-jog, half-dance, while miners in hardhats sang union songs to the
crashing sounds of a marching band, all celebrating the remaking of their
country by the nationally elected assembly.
Morales, a leftist elected as Bolivia's first Indian president in
December, envisions the assembly as a means to
undo the centuries-old dominance of the European-descended
minority and to create more opportunity for the poor, indigenous majority.
The assembly began 181 years to the day after Bolivia first proclaimed its
independence from Spain.
"You have an enormous responsibility to change our Bolivia," Morales
told the delegates. "Not only a responsibility to bring us a new
constitution, but as soldiers for our country's true independence. As
constituents, you are soldiers in the struggle for liberty, for dignity,
for equality."
Morales' Movement Toward Socialism party holds a thin majority in the
assembly, but not the two-thirds needed to control the assembly outright.
Conservatives, many from eastern provinces, want to keep more of their
wealth from being consumed by socialist programs. And a proposal to grant
states greater autonomy from the central government won overwhelming
support in the wealthier eastern and southern states during a July 2
national referendum.
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