August 19, 2022, 8:35 PM
August 19, 2022, 8:35 PM
Of seven meetings held by national authorities with departmental authorities in the “socialization” of the proposal to carry out the census in 2024, three accepted the initiative; while four managed to leave the date open to modify according to the approaches that may arise later.
Of the seven meetings agreed by the Government The departments of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, and Tarija said no to the official schedule. and the city of Peace at Wednesday’s meeting.
The Santa Cruz document has six points and in none of them is the date mentioned of carrying out the census or the schedule that the Government socializes, which sets the year 2024 as the deadline for the national survey. Santa Cruz requires that this work be brought forward a year and that it be carried out in mid-2023.
Cochabamba was the second department that received the authorities and at the meeting on August 10 it was only concluded in university participation and the need for the Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS) to collaborate in the elaboration of cartography in the department. The government’s schedule and the authorities’ compliance with that proposal were not mentioned..
Tarija was the third department where the socialization meeting was held and in the same The government’s schedule was not approved either. and it was only agreed that the census be “eminently technical”, a phrase that the Executive reiterates in all meetings held with the departmental and local authorities.
“We are not here to sign anything for or against the census in 2024,” the mayor, Iván Arias, had anticipated on the afternoon of August 17 when the Government summoned the authorities of the Government headquarters. After more than 10 hours of meeting the signed record did not contemplate the date of the census in none of the four points of the document.
Those who did sign and recognized the completion of the census in 2024 are the departments Oruro, Pando and the city of El Alto. The department of Oruro was the first visited by the Planning Minister, Sergio Cusicanqui, and the official delegation.
On August 8, the signing of the first act was achieved, same in which confirms the government proposal reliably. “The instances participating in the technical socialization meeting carried out in the department of Oruro express their agreement and in accordance with the rescheduling of the Population and Housing Census for 2024, given the explanation and presentation of the schedule made by the INE technical team”, states the first point of the document.
August 16the national authorities attended their sixth meeting, this time in the city of The tall, where too set 2024 as the completion date of the census. “I know supports the consensus reached in the National Council of Autonomies regarding the rescheduling of the Population and Housing Census and the Supreme Decree N 4760 (setting the census for 2024)”, points to the text of the agreement signed by the Mayor, Eva Copa.
This Friday afternoon, in a four-hour meetingthe authorities also obtained the signing of the pandina authorities that recognize the completion of the census in 2024 and it is explicitly provided in points 1 and 2 of the document.
The next week the Government must visit the departments of Potosí, Chuquisaca and Beni where he will seek that his authorities admit the carrying out of the census in two years. In Potosí they have the MAS governor, but resistance from other sectors that demand a census in 2023; in Chuquisaca the mandate of Damián Condori is in force, who is an opponent of the Government, as well as the mayor; In Beni, its governor, Alejandro Unzueta, supported the postponement of the census that was to be carried out in 2022, but clarified that he does not agree with its being rescheduled until 2024, since he believes that it can be done before (2023).
