Bolivians will hold a vote of confidence in the rule of their President Evo Morales, BBC News reports. Leftist Morales, who has more than two years to run as leader, agreed to hold the referendum after the opposition-run upper house of parliament backed it.

Citizens of Bolivia will vote within 90 days on whether Morales, his vice-president and nine governors should stay in office.

“We politicians can’t forget that the people decide the destiny of the country, the presidents, the prefects,” Morales said in a televised address from the presidential palace in La Paz. “Democracy is to be defined at the ballot box, not through violence,” he added, quoted by CNN. “How many times have we said yes to the ballot box, no to the arms?”

The statement came shortly after the National Congress passed the call for a vote, and a few days after a referendum on autonomy passed in Santa Cruz. Morales rejected the vote as illegal and criticized its supporters as opposed to his plan to share the wealth of their communities with the rest of the country, which is the poorest in Latin America.

“I want the people of Bolivia to know we are a government that respects the people, that respects legality, that respects the National Congress, but we also respect the decisions of conscience,” Morales said, according to the same source. “I hope that the wisdom of the people, the conscience of the people obliges the Congress to accelerate the changes,” he concluded.