LA PAZ (AP) -- President Evo Morales' quest to transform Bolivia on behalf of its long-suffering indigenous majority is on the line Sunday as voters consider a new constitution that could keep the leftist leader in power through 2014.

""This constitution gives us all the same opportunities, rights and responsibilities,"" Morales told reporters Saturday in La Paz. ""The traditional indigenous people, who are poor but many, will unite with the contemporary indigenous people, who are few but rich.""
The proposed charter, expected to pass easily, calls for a general election in December in which Morales could run for a second five-year term.
Elected in 2005 on a promise to nationalize Bolivia's natural gas industry, Morales has increased the state's presence across the economy and expanded benefits for the poor.
Morales' reforms remain widely popular, winning him 67 percent support in an August recall election. But his biggest project nearly failed in 2006, when an assembly convened to rewrite the constitution broke apart along largely racial lines.