In announcing the agreement, Mr. Morales said he was satisfied that true reforms would now take place.
Mr. Aleiku, who took part in a meeting with the provincial governor last week, said, "If the president engages in true reforms, I think that is most important".
True, reforms did happen witness Russia's flawed but massive sale of state assets and the creation of a treasury-bill market to fill the government's budget gap.
"I hope and pray that these misguided elements will realize that true reforms cannot be realized through the use of force," she said.
Indeed, the recent announcements are comprised of administrative, or "stroke of the pen," reforms that do not require legislative approval – leading at least one news report to dub them "overhauls" rather than true reforms.
They believed, moreover, that true reforms could be brought about only by the exaltation of the papacy so that it commanded the obedience of all provincial metropolitans and was out of the reach of the emperor and the local aristocracy.
