President of the Senate Ramon Alburquerque has softened his language and now talks of reaching a consensus to reform the Constitution. He said that the political parties will agree upon themselves on what should be done after consulting with the civil society. He continues to reject, though, that the civil society have more than an advisory participation in the reform of the Constitution. To pass, the constitutional reform needs the approval of two-thirds of the members of Congress. Meanwhile, Monsignor Agripino Nuñez Collado, coordinator of a presidential commission appointed to propose changes to the 1994 Constitution, asked the ruling PRD party to return to the presidential commission that is studying the reforms.
