per-cent royalties on gas and petroleum firms and the nationalization of the energy industry. "We do not rule out all kinds of social mobilizations all over the country" to protest the law, Santos Ramirez, deputy of the opposition Movement to Socialism (MAS) party, said after Thursday's vote. "We have achieved nothing with the new law," said Jaime Solares, leader of the large Bolivian Workers Alliance (COB). "We had warned the deputies, and I hope they don't complain about what is going to happen from now on because all sectors are going to mobilize on the streets. We're going to take the Congress." In Tarija, where most of Bolivia's natural gas reserves are located, residents began a strike to demand a state-run energy firm be set up in their province. A local leader called on the president to veto the bill because the petition to set up the Bolivian oil and gas firm in Tarija had been ignored. --More 0108 Local Time 2208 GMT
