February 22, 2023, 18:50 PM
February 22, 2023, 18:50 PM
The Vice President of the State, David Choquehuanca, affirmed that those who intend to promote the realization of a recall against President Luis Arce, It would going against the decision of a people who voted in favor of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) binomial in the 2020 general elections.
“We have recovered our democracy and thanks to the struggle of the people our brother Luis is here. Although others want to lower it, they want to make a recall, They do not realize that they are going against an entire town”, the second highest authority in the country asserted this Tuesday.
David Choquehuanca participated this day in the XV Anniversary of the Deputy Mayor of the district of Challa, in the department of Cochabamba.
The vice president’s statements come after the president of the Civic Committee, Rómulo Calvo, reminded the head of state of the letter he sent him where he mentioned the term that you have until February 25 for the creation of a presidential decree of Amnesty in order to release the political prisoners, otherwise the process to seek their recall would begin.
“Mr. Luis Arce Catacora, We are 72 hours away from meeting the deadline that the Bolivian people gave to you and his government to pacify the country and build a real and true social peace, with the aim of being able to focus, all Bolivians, on strengthening the battered economy and the deficient macroeconomic policies that his government has been carrying out”, asserted the civic leader.
Choquehuanca expressed that recovering democracy cost “blood to the Bolivian people”, where the protagonists were the social sectors made up of “Quechuas, Aymaras, peasants, miners and teachers.”
“The Executive is not obliged to comply with the resolutions of the council”
The senator of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), William Tórrez, maintained that the determinations of the town hall of January 25 in Christ the Redeemer, they are only deliberative conclusions and not resolutions.
In an interview with EL DEBER, the official legislator pointed out that the civic leader “is unaware” that the council cannot adopt resolutions that demand compliance, therefore, he stressed that None of the Executive authorities is obliged to comply with the resolutionsciting article 211 of the Political Constitution of the State.
“If Mr. Calvo intends to force the Executive, he certainly does not find legal support, any sense of demanding have a destabilizing character”, questioned the senator in an interview with EL DEBER.
He was of the opinion that the scenario that could occur in the country It is not of concern to the administration of Arce Catacorasince in the general elections the support of the people was widely demonstrated and in this future situation it would be the same way.
For his part, Senator Leonardo Loza said that Rómulo Calvo has no weight to threaten the country and a democratically elected government.
“Hopefully this person is healthy in the head, or else he has to go to a doctor to be checked for declaring such audacity,” he said.