September 4, 2024, 1:27 PM
September 4, 2024, 1:27 PM
Through a statement, the Municipal Council of Santa Cruz de la Sierra expressed its support for the departmental civic strike called for this Friday by the Assembly of the Cruceñidad. The institution also criticizes the results of the 2024 Census presented by the INE last week.
“As the Municipal Council of Santa Cruz de la Sierra we support the determination of the Assembly of the Cruceñidad and we express to the people our commitment to firmness, unity and struggle to confront this adverse situation, until we achieve justice and well-being for all men and women who, whether born in this land or not, can sow and reap opportunities for development and dignity,” reads the final part of the document that is already circulating on social networks.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mayor Jhonny Fernández announced that the municipal executive would comply with the civic strike.
The Assembly of the Cruceñidad convened by the Civic Committee also agreed:
1. Vehemently reject the results of the Population and Housing Census conducted on March 23, 2024 and to denounce the theft of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants from the Bolivian people in general, and from those who reside in Santa Cruz in particular, who are deprived of fair and equitable access to fiscal resources that should finance the attention of basic needs to improve their quality of life, as well as the correct reallocation of parliamentary seats being denied to us once again.
2. Formalize the constitution of a technical commission between the departmental government, municipal government, Gabriel René Moreno University and the Pro Santa Cruz Committee, to continue with the necessary technical work, surveys or countswhich will allow the irregular and fraudulent execution of the Census by the National Institute of Statistics to be documented and corroborated, in order to manage the opening of criminal proceedings and a trial of responsibilities against those who are implicated in such fraud.
3. Demand that the Santa Cruz Parliamentary Brigade immediately draft and process in the Legislative Assembly, the approval of a Corrective Intercensus Law, so that in the next legislature there will be reliable and updated demographic indicators for its immediate application in the allocation of economic resources to autonomous entities. And to make extreme efforts in the National Legislative Assembly to achieve the repeal of incendiary laws, as well as to urge the National Executive to carry out the repeal of the supreme decrees that are part of the incendiary norms.
4. Build and promote throughout the country the agreement of a Fiscal Pact project thatThat, together with the rest of the departments and municipalities of Bolivia, generates a new structure of percentage distribution of public resources that is monopolized by centralism to the detriment of departments, municipalities and universities.
5. Urge all opposition political forces to work together with civil society promote the need to deepen the application of autonomy as the only way for each region to better manage manner and according to their needs and potential, both economic resources and their skills, and thus, free the country from corrupt and inefficient centralism that threatens our development.
6. Urge parliamentarians to resolutely promote change in the current and a disastrous economic model, which is leading the country to bankruptcy, affecting the poorest and most unprotected and destroying our productive base.
7. Urge departmental and national authorities to declare Santa Cruz a departmental and national disaster zone.
8. Demand that the Judiciary does not lend itself to political manipulation and enforce the independence of powers, an essential condition of democratic institutions.
9. As a protestin the face of the INE census fraud promoted by the central government, a 24-hour departmental civic strike is declaredwhich will take effect at midnight on Friday, September 6.
10. Unity must be the principle for future elections, in order to achieve a real change in the direction of this country from the central power.
11. Grant absolute decision-making power to the board of our Pro Santa Cruz Committee and its president, to decide on any other measures necessary to carry out the decisions of this Assembly.
