Governor and mayors of La Paz (without Arias or Copa) accepted the census in 2024 and Quispe creates a committee under his charge

Without the presence of the two main mayorsIván Arias from La Paz and Eva Copa from El Alto, Governor Santos Quispe met with the rest of the 70 mayors of the department of La Paz and agreed to carry out the census in 2024, although they requested let it be on the weekend so that it does not harm productionalthough that proposal was already incorporated in a meeting with the president, Luis Arce.

“In consensus of the mayors of the department of La Paz, they ratify the date of the ‘Population and Housing Census’, for the first semester (May – June 2024) considering the Census Route, the cartographic update, design and approval of the census ballot, logistical aspects, as well as the qualification and training of enumerators”, indicates the first point of the approved document.

Likewise, the governor succeeded in having “the Departmental Technical Commission for the Population and Housing Census”, an instance that will also incorporate the municipalities, councilors, public and private universities, in addition to the INE, to carry out monitoring of the entire processthe “commission” will be chaired by the governor himself and the mayors accepted.

Likewise, requested a meeting with the Vice Ministry of Autonomiesin which the mayors will participate, with the aim of see the scope of boundary conflicts between municipalitieswhich should lead to the approval of urban areas before the census.

The main authority of the department disqualified the absences of the two mayors of the largest cities in the region. Mayor Iván Arias pinned his hopes on the Inter-institutional Committee for the Census for Peace that will meet on August 10, at which event the Mayor of La Paz will propose the creation of an “Inter-institutional Committee of the Department of La Paz”, which is a clear antithesis of the instance created by the governor.