La Paz, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Bolivian government will hold a national referendum next February to determine if the country’s current President Evo Morales will be allowed to run in the 2019 presidential election, the country’s Senate President announced on Tuesday. 

The outcome of national referendum could result in modifications to the country’s constitution, which currently only allows for two consecutive presidential terms. 

However, it remains unclear whether the proposed changes will permit indefinite term limits or impose a restriction on the number of terms a president could serve. 

Under Bolivian law, the constitution can be altered through a grassroots referendum called by 20 percent of the electorate or through a reform within the legislature with two-thirds support. Either instance would also require a referendum.  
      
The key provisions of the measure have already been approved by a legislative commission and Morales' Movement Toward Socialism party holds a two-thirds majority in Congress.

Morales, 55, was first elected in 2005 and re-elected in 2009. The Bolivian leader was granted permission to run a third time in 2014 on the grounds that he had only served one term under the new constitution.

The referendum proposal, which was initially scheduled to take place in January, has received backing from both Bolivia's ruling political party Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) as well the country’s largest social movements.