July 18, 2022, 9:02 PM
July 18, 2022, 9:02 PM
The Minister of Public Works, Edgar Montaño, As has already happened with previous demonstrations, he came out to hold the highest authority of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, responsible for the civic strike that would take place if the national government does not heed the request of the Santa Cruz institutions to open a debate scenario on the postponement of the Census of Population and Housing.
Montaño put numbers on it To the subject when referring that the civic strike called by theinterinstitutional defense committee for the census for July 25 will mean to the region losses of $32 million and attributed the issue to the Santa Cruz governor, despite the fact that this was a determination of the Santa Cruz institutionality assumed at an emergency summit held last Friday.
To date, the Government has not given a formal response to Santa Cruz’s request, from where it seeks to explain the reasons and arguments for the postponement of the national survey and at the moment only two authorities of the Executive have come out to refer to the matter which translates into attacks against Camacho.
“The Governor of Santa Cruz is resuming his bad habits to lose economic resources to my department. Are $32 million that are lost due to a strike day”, indicated the person in charge of Public Works, at the time of accusing the promoters of the summit of try to create a “new coup d’état in Bolivia”.
In this sense, Montaño noted that the strike call has the objective of “making people forget that their The Santa Cruz government only executed 9% of the total budget, which is $2,174 million, that is, 91% was allocated to current spending,” according to his statements.
However, this last matter was alluded to by the departmental government, from where externalized that the budget execution until June is 34.9% and is registered in real time in the Integrated Public Management System (Sigep).
The Santa Cruz Government emphasizes that the total of its budget execution until June was 34.9% and that its public execution until the previous month is 27.6% and that this figure is registered in the public system where are all the financial data of the State institutions in real time.
Cindy Cronembold, secretary of Institutional Management, indicated that the Sigep registers the items of expenses grouped into 8 items that cover all budget execution operations and that the entire flow of investments in health, road service, transfers, water wells, electrification, fire and emergency care.
In this sense, he pointed out that the Sigep records that the total budget execution of the Government of Santa Cruz in June was 34.9% and not 9% as was also stated by the Minister of the Presidency and the Vice Minister of Investment, days ago.
for now, There is no formal response from the Government to create a scenario that resolves the emergency in which the promoting committee and defender of the census is located, only two attacks (one in the morning and another in the afternoon of this Monday) by the Vice Minister of Government Coordination, Gustavo Torrico, and in the afternoon the Minister of Public Works , Edgar Montano.
Lastly, Montano He announced that he was summoned for this Tuesday by the carriers and trade unionists to meet and make known what the decision will be on the civic strike announced for next July 25, an issue that still standsdue to the lack of rapprochement between the different spheres of the public sector.
