December 1, 2022, 5:30 PM
December 1, 2022, 5:30 PM
The Bolivian Information Agency, ABI, dependent on the State, released the news on its digital portal. It alluded to the promulgation of the Census Law by President Luis Arce. In addition, he replicated the exact words of the presidential spokesman. Jorge Richter, to ratify the note.
According to the official website, the presidential spokesman reported this Thursday that the President of the State, Luis Arce, promulgated Law No. 1492 of November 30, 2022 of Application of the Results of the Population and Housing Census in the Financial and Electoral Areas and explained that, with the norm, the tranquility of the population of Santa Cruz, who carried out 36 days of mandatory unemployment, is guaranteed.
However, the state agency took the news out of circulation minutes later and in the Official State Gazette, the Law has not yet been published. Asked about the allusion to ABI, Richter told EL DEBER: “I did not refer to the promulgation (…) I have not made that reference.”
According to the spokesperson, this Thursday he gave a conference that is uploaded on the Bolivia TV platform and did not refer to the subject. Indeed, in the video published by the state channel under the title: “President Luis Arce will promulgate the law for the application of Census results“, Richter refers to various issues and not to the Census Act.
However, at the bottom of the video a text prepared by Bolivia TV is read. “‘There is nothing to suggest that President Luis Arce will not promulgate the Law for the Application of the Results of the #Census 2024,’ says presidential spokesman Jorge Richter, regarding the Population and Housing Census Law,” the explanation details. .
In the note that ABI withdrew, but a fragment of which can still be read on Internet search engines, it referred to Richter’s alleged statements about the efforts made by the Executive Branch, to guarantee social peace and tranquility of the population.
A record of the publication of ABI in search engines remains
The ABI writing also included some justifications for the approved standard. Is would not exceed the powers of President Arce, because ratifies the determination of the date of the census process indicated in Supreme Decree 4824, enacted by the head of state earlier. And he again quoted the presidential spokesman:
“This has been stipulated and indicated in the decree that has already been promulgated with the date of March 23, 2024, that is within the private and exclusive powers of the president of the State”, Richter would have said, according to ABI.
Link of the news about the promulgation of the Census Law leads to an error page
Regarding the reallocation of seats, the spokesperson stated that the law establishes “the chapter referring to the reallocation of seats for the Legislative Assembly”, collected the state news agency, in its press release.
