November 11, 2022, 11:52 PM
November 11, 2022, 11:52 PM
Through a presidential message, Luis Arce, set the census date for March 23, 2024 and the distribution of resources until September of that same year and asked to lift all pressure measures in Santa Cruz.
“The national census registration will take place on March 23, 2024, second, based on these preliminary results, the distribution of resources will be in September 2024, one month before than what we had initially proposed,” he said in a message broadcast by the state channel.
Previously, the president made a long explanation and justification of the entire census process and revealed that in 2012 the Population Census was carried out without cartographic updating and that for this reason the international organizations suggested carrying out the census in October 2024.
the presidential message It occurred hours after a violent day that Santa Cruz lived. The conflicts this Friday led to the arrest of some 15 people after a confrontation between the Police and sectors that defend the strike called by the Interinstitutional Committee.
Arce said he respects the decisions of the Santa Cruz council, but that a decision cannot be imposed on the majority of other authorities that did support the Census in 2024, and recounted everything that happened since July of this year.
“On July 21, 2021, through Decree 4546, we established that the Population and Housing Census would be carried out on November 16, 2022, the necessary tasks were carried out to advance in this regard, however, at this stage we identified in the 2012 census the cartographic update was not done”, said the Head of State in his message.
that year, Luis Arce served as Minister of Economy and was the one who managed the resources of that registration. Ten years later it revealed that there was no cartographic update, which consists of a general sweep of towns and cities to find out the number of dwellings and families that live in each apple tree; This process is in full swing in the country’s capital cities and is the most complex to carry out.
