November 14, 2022, 7:34 PM
November 14, 2022, 7:34 PM
The proposal presented by the Citizen Community (CC) regarding the conduct of the census in 2023 will be considered by the Chamber of Deputiespromised the president of this legislative body, Jerges Mercado, who visited the three striking deputies moments before they suspended their measure of pressure.
“This law that you are handing me, like all laws, you know, follows a procedure. ANDn the next few days we are going to form the commissions, the law will enter the window accordingly. I have made a public commitment this morning, without being asked, that every law that reaches this Chamber of Deputies will be analyzedit will be treated, it will be processed according to the regulations,” Mercado told the three legislators.
for eight daysfrom November 7, three CC legislators began a hunger strike in support of the indefinite strike in Santa Cruz and at the same timethey presented a bill that calls for the census in 2023. This afternoon that measure was lifted by the deputies who promised to follow up on this modified project that they presented.
The deputies took the opportunity to ask Jerges Mercado to also release all political prisoners that they were arrested in recent weeks; something that the deputy knew how to easily evade with the argument that this issue corresponds to the Judicial Branch. “In any case, we are going to do what we can do to help,” Mercado told them.
Deputy Miguel Roca reminded him that the fight of the deputies has already moved to the Assemblyafter the mobilized of Santa Cruz asked for a law, instead of the decree that the Government launched over the weekend.
“Let’s deal with this law soon so that the fight in the country has an objective, because the fight in the streets is still going on, do not get wrong, I was not wrong please”, the deputy told the president of this instance.
For her part, the deputy María José Salazar, who was another of those who maintained the hunger strike, asked that the Interpellation against the Minister of Government, Carlos Eduardo Del Castillo for the role of the Police in the 24-day strike in Santa Cruz and the open way they had to protect the groups that supported the Government.
