Bolivian President Luis Arce addresses an assembly of farm workers from the Confederation of Intercultural People of Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia, October 3, 2023
BOLIVIAN President Luis Arce has announced national referendums on the removal of fuel subsidies and the constitutionality of presidential re-elections.
Mr Arce did not give a date for the votes during a speech on Tuesday in the southern city of Sucre, Bolivia’s historical capital, as the country marked the 199th anniversary of its independence.
He defended the referendum proposal as a way to dispel some of the uncertainty that Bolivians have endured for months, promising that the gesture was not about “electoral calculations or personal ambitions.”
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