The senator of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA) Lucas Aquino said that they will require a detailed report from the Executive regarding the use of the 43 million dollars that were allocated to the National Statistics Institute (INE) for the National Population and Housing Census. . Aquino mentioned that among the alleged irregularities committed during the Census, political operators were privileged as census takers and that others were left aside for not belonging to a certain political sector.
Source: The Nation
This fact coincides with the complaints about the absences of volunteers, made by users on social networks. He reiterated that the census was of vital importance for “public political evidence, but as the hours passed tons of complaints appeared by citizens throughout the census process”.
he sPLRA enator Salyn Buzarquis did not hesitate to affirm during his statement before the Chamber of Senators that this census has been a “negotiated, a silver je’u really” and he agreed with his colleague from the Patria Querida Party, regarding the outrage over the absence of President Mario Abdo, in the middle of the national census.
Also the senator of the Guasu Front Hugo Richerjoined the claims to Abdo for his conspicuous absence “while people were called to stay in their homes and collaborate with the census takers.” He criticized the presidential environment for not advising him in this case. “It strikes me that the environment has not told you, President, it is important that you stay here.”
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They criticize the sheaf
After the failure of the 2022 Population and Housing Census, for the economist and candidate for senator for the Honor Colorado movement Gustavo Leite It was revealed that this government is characterized by improvised people. “This is a sheaf that entered purely to benefit; they did it in a pandemic with the economy, and now they do it with the census, ”he expressed for La Nación / Nación Media.
He added that once again it is the citizens who will end up paying the millionaire loan made to carry out a census without the expected results. While the population remained locked up, abiding by the rules established to receive census takers, the Government, through its highest representative, did not show the slightest respect for the development of a census that in the end served to waste money, in the same way that did during the pandemic, he lamented.
For the economist, having reliable data on the Paraguayan reality is essential for public policies, but after the failure left by the census, there will be made-up data and, in the worst case, the data may even be real, but they will not have enough trust from the public.
“I think that the vast majority of citizens feel outraged because if we were all locked up, the President of the Republic should have been in the country. I think that, in his style, he already knew that this census would be a disaster and he ordered himself to move so as not to face the coming problems, and incidentally, celebrate his birthday in Europe, ”said Leite.
The economist highlighted that, in terms of cost to the economy, If the calculation is made that it measures US$ 40 billion, around US$ 100 million reaches the loss of the country for a day in which it stopped, which occurred without any justification because the census was not carried out with the expected success. He also pointed out that the US$43 million that the data collection cost was not well invested and the National Institute of Statistics itself recognized its inefficiency.
