In last year's election the Maoists won 38% of the seats in a Constituent Assembly.
He signed a decree calling a referendum on March 18th on convening a Constituent Assembly.
The protest leaders also want to nationalise Bolivia's oil and gas industry and convene a constituent assembly.
The prosecutor, like the Supreme Court, was appointed by a constituent assembly, over which Mr Miquilena presided.
Soon, he called elections for a Democratic Constitutional Congress that would serve as a legislature and a Constituent Assembly.
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Success furthermore depends on tribal federations working together in a constituent assembly that is yet to be set up.
Mr Mesa has also given in to a demand for a constituent assembly.
The constitution's text was approved at an ad hoc session of a Constituent Assembly from which the opposition was excluded.
The incident comes as Libya's governing National Transitional Council prepares to hold elections for a constituent assembly in the coming weeks.
This weekend Tunisians will become the first Arabs to elect a constituent assembly, which in turn will draw up a new constitution.
The document approved on July 25th by a Constituent Assembly dominated by supporters of Rafael Correa, the leftist president, is a 444-article behemoth.
They insist that Mr Zelaya violated the constitution by trying to convoke a constituent assembly which they fear might have prolonged his term.
The huge support Correa received on April 15, 2007 has given him the legitimacy to convoke a Constituent Assembly to change the Constitution.
This past September Ecuadorians went to the polls and voted for a constituent assembly whose function it will be to write a new constitution.
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With only minor support of a few Representatives from other political parties, his administration had difficulties in trying to create a Constituent Assembly from the start.
Last year, Zelaya announced that he would hold a referendum to set up a constituent assembly that would change the constitution that barred him from reelection.
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In a well written, somewhat academic speech Correa lays out these policies including the reformulation of the state constitution and the creation of a Constituent assembly.
Warning against a Chavista regime type of regime and warning of the dangers of a constituent assembly is important but Noboa may have to move beyond this.
President Rafael Correa's proposal to create a Constituent Assembly to rewrite Ecuador's Constitution won an overwhelming 81.7% of the votes in a national Referendum on April 15, 2007.
The Supreme Council said on its Facebook page Thursday that the clashes in Abbasiya were aimed at delaying the presidential elections and stalling the formation of a constituent assembly.
Santa Cruz has taken the lead in asserting its autonomy from La Paz and in rejecting the text of the new Constitution drafted by a constituent assembly in 2006-07.
Indeed, President Rafael Correa's proposal to create a Constituent Assembly to rewrite Ecuador's Constitution won an overwhelming 81.7% of the votes in a national Referendum on April 15, 2007.
As Luis Fleischman, writing for The Americas Report, predicted last November, the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, is creating a constituent assembly aimed at increasing a more authoritarian system of government.
The text was rushed through by a constituent assembly dominated by Islamists and boycotted by liberal and left-wing members, and facing a threat of dissolution by the country's top court.
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As we know in Venezuela, the creation of a constituent assembly led to an increasing authoritarian system where more and more power was delegated from the legislative to the executive power.
Opponents of the president claim he is following in the footsteps of Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, who successfully pushed for the election of a constituent assembly packed with his supporters in 1999.
FARC's leader, last week proposed a six-month ceasefire during which the two sides would discuss reforms to be put to a constituent assembly, and the guerrillas would be paid to stop kidnapping.
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His most controversial campaign promise, alarming those who saw him as a potential dictator, was to set up a constituent assembly, made up of a cross-section of society, that could bypass the opposition-dominated Congress.
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