Weekly Report - 8 November 2007 (INNS 1741-7422)

Bolivia's constituent assembly looks like splitting in two or dissolving altogether after a dialogue process set up by the government to try and resolve the impasse over the capital issue broke down. On 6 November the Comité Interinstitucional de Chuquisaca, which has been lobbying for the assembly to discuss Sucre replacing La Paz as the administrative capital, rejected the final offer of a multi-party congressional commission. The compromise deal involved awarding Sucre a streamlined congress, composed of nine Senators and 18 deputies and presided over by the Vice-President. The Comité dismissed it on the grounds that it would only have met in Sucre for 20 to 30 sessions a year while congress was in recess.

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