August 17, 2022, 4:00 AM
August 17, 2022, 4:00 AM
Far from the optimism shown by Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, who pointed out that Santa Cruz managed to get the government to review the date of the census with two strikes, analysts and politicians agree that the Executive maintains its strategy of postponing the great national survey, even for undefined time. In the MAS they insist that there will be a census, but they are no longer closed in that it will be in 2024, as indicated by Supreme Decree 4760, but will depend on what the technical committee defines.
On Twitter, after the marathon meeting on Monday, Camacho wrote: “And that is what Santa Cruz asked for with his two successful strikes: that the arbitrary and political postponement of the census be reviewed and that the contribution of the technical team of the Inter-institutional Committee be heard. ”.
Camacho’s optimism contrasts with the pessimism shown by the former municipal secretary of autonomy José Luis Santistevan. “What we Cruceños like least is deceiving people and continuing to generate expectations about a process that the government does not want to do. Probably the census will not do it even in the middle of the year 2024 ”.
The also constitutional lawyer explained in the Influential program of EL DEBER Radio that by the middle of that year “the famous primaries will begin” (internal elections to define candidates of each political party), as established by Law 1096, and the country will be totally politicized.
Santistevan, who on July 27 resigned from the Secretary of Autonomies of the Mayor’s Office due to disagreements with Jhonny Fernández, He warned that the Government played for the technical tables in the departments to reach September and, then, ratify that the census will not be in 2023. “It is the anniversary month of Santa Cruz and no one will dare to do anything because the fair, the development, must be protected. The Government has calculated everything so that there is no census in 2023 or 2024.”
When consulted, Senator William Tórrez, from MAS, replied that it is too early to anticipate in what year the census will take place. “If the technical commission defines that it will be in 2023, we would receive it with satisfaction, but if you suggest that it be months later or the following year, we will respect it,” he said.
The pro-government legislator assured that it is not possible to reason in the way that Santistevan proposes. “The installation of work tables with governors, mayors, universities and now the departments guarantees that the Government is predisposed to dialogue and show what has been done, like that census will be done yes or yes ”.
For his part, the social researcher Rolando Schrupp agreed that the uncertainty is a consequence of the Government’s failures in the timely organization of the census and now this political initiative for dialogue is proposed. “We’re discussing the date two years after they didn’t do their job,” he said.
For Schrupp, the authorities from Santa Cruz, such as the governor and mayor Fernández, became accomplices of the Government “because they sat down to validate this position, attached to the legal technique.”
“Santa Cruz must build its own State, as was done 20 years ago with the autonomous process. There were failures, but now we need to pick it up,” he said.
For his part, the lawyer and former mayor of La Paz Juan del Granado said that the error of the National Commission of Autonomies was not to demand a rigorous explanation of why the initial schedule was not met, “which was supposedly perfect until two or three weeks before the postponement.”
I affirm that lack of consistency from subnational authorities and so far the schedule is unknown. “I imagine that is being explained at the tables.”
