Bolivian President Evo Morales formed the country's first plural-national cabinet Sunday, calling on it to work toward the implementation of the new Constitution, enacted Saturday.
"Our obligation now is to set the new Political Constitution of the Bolivian State," Morales said during the swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet at the presidential Quemado Palace.
The new cabinet consists of 20 ministries, with new members including Julia Ramos Sanchez, of the Rural Development and Lands Ministry, and Calixto Chipana Calizaza, of the Labor and Social Prevention Ministry, Xinhua reported.
Morales urged the new cabinet to display a "bigger social conscience, political and ideological compromise and professional capacity" to attend to its new tasks.
"We must start to change everything if we want to change Bolivia. That change begins from the president, vice president, followed by you (ministers) ...Here we do not come to be famous, here we come to work. We are not here for money, but for the homeland....(We want) the cabinet to give answers to the Bolivian people," he added.
On Saturday, Morales promulgated Bolivia's new constitution, which was approved by 61 percent of voters in a Jan. 25 referendum.
As the South American nation's first constitution to be approved by popular vote, it would give more power to Bolivia's indigenous majority, promote agricultural land reform and allow Morales to seek re-election.
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