September 13, 2022, 4:50 PM
September 13, 2022, 4:50 PM
“The Population and Housing Census can be done in 2023,” is the blunt statement by Vicente Cuéllar, spokesman for the Interinstitutional Committee for the Promotion of the Census. He says it forcefully and with the proposal prepared by the technical committee Present. this very morning They have sent “an extensive executive summary and legal support” to the Ministry of Planning.
Cuéllar values the work they have done within this commission despite, he points out, “not receive all the information that we demanded to complement the proposal”. In this way, point four of the agreements signed on August 15 in the capital of Santa Cruz between the national authorities and local representatives is fulfilled.
The next stepexplains the rector of the Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno, goes through the installation of the technical tables in Santa Cruz “to evaluate and build criteria on the proposal”.
For the moment, they will await an official pronouncement by the authorities of the ministry or the INE. Yes indeed, ensures that “qWe want to confront technical criteria with them” and “demonstrate that the census can be done in 2023”.
The document produced isa more extensive report”, although “an executive summary and legal support” have been sent. Cuéllar assures that the work has all the disaggregated stages and, for that reason, “sit would be too long to send all the stages.”
Contrary to official planning, the Cuceños technicians They state that “the activities are carried out simultaneously and not sequentially” as they propose”, he explains in a telephone conversation.
The rector gives more details about this different modality of work. “By examplewhile the socialization of the census ballot is done, one team could be working on the cartographic update and another start the bidding for equipment”, he lists.
For Cuéllar, the sequential organization proposed by government it’s a way of “delay the census for 2024″.
In the coming days, the proposal will be shared and socialized with local authorities. “We are going to send the same proposal to the mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, to Amdecruz, so that he makes it known to all his affiliates, and to the Government.
Assembly of the Cruceñidad
Vicente Cuéllar will attend tomorrow the Assembly of La Cruceñidad convened by the Civic Committee for Santa Cruz. “CAs a university we must be present”, asserts.
The absence of the Uagrm had become a constant in recent times. However, with the assumption of Cuéllar as rector, greater interaction with the various Santa Cruz institutions is sought. “We have visited other institutions such as COD or Cainco, we have met with trade unions and other sectors. We are always going to maintain an institutional position trying to contribute and make alliances with all the institutions in our environment”, commits.
From the Civic Committee, the president of the entity, Calvo Romulus, calls for participation in the aforementioned Assembly to “give legitimacy and institutional strength to the council of September 30″.
According to Calvo, the Assembly pwill allow “capturing ideas from the sectors” facing the announced council. The census focuses the concern of the various institutions that make up the Civic Committee, a census that “is important for the democratic life of the country,” complements its owner.
Regarding the discrepancy in the dates of the census, Calvo blames the Government. “This promoting a political and electoral census”. The civic call demands “protecting the census, protecting the electoral register and the elections,” he says.
