The former president of Bolivian, Evo Moraleshe has unleashed his fury against the Bolivian government he leads Luis Alberto Arceformer Minister of Economy of Morales, per the approval of the census law with which the ruling party asks to suspend the protests in the province of Santa Cruz. “Revolutionaries don’t negotiate with the right,” Morales said.
“We have returned to the concerted democracy of the neoliberal era, to the pattocracy, or government of pacts, behind the backs of the people. The census law is the pact of impunity between traitors, renovators and slaughterers of our brothers. the right,” was the first Morales’ reaction on social media.
It is that in the early hours of this Saturday, after a marathon session, the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies gave a half-sanction to the project that brings forward to 2023 the census that the Bolivian government had confirmed for 2024.
On October 22, a “civic movement” that brings together organizations and entrepreneurs from Santa Cruz called an indefinite strike to demand the advance of a year of the Census which determines the distribution of resources between the regions of the country.
This angered Evo Morales, who had several clashes with Arce, the MAS man who was his economy minister and whom he supported in the last Bolivian election.
“We denounce that the deputies who promised the people justice for the victims of the de facto government during the electoral campaign crossed rivers of blood, allied themselves with the benches of Mesa and Camacho and approved a law at the request of those coup plotters. This isn’t renewal, it’s called betrayal“, Evo Morales lashed out this Saturday.
How is the conflict over the “Census Act”
Bolivia’s Chamber of Deputies half-passed the census law, for this reason The ruling party has called for a halt to protests and a halt to activities in the province of Santa Cruz, a stronghold of the opposition.
With more than two thirds of the votes and after a marathon session, the plenary of Deputies this morning approved the project which will now be sent to the Senate.
“We hope that, with this law, the demonstrations in Santa Cruz will be immediately suspended. There is no reason to continue with these measures since this regulation will be sent to the Senators”, said the president of the Deputies at the press conference.
“We have passed a law that we hope will contribute to the return to normality and an end to violence in our department. We hope that the pressure measures (in Santa Cruz) begin to be lifted today,” said the leader, according to reproduced statements by the local authority ABI.
On October 22, a “civic movement” that brings together organizations and entrepreneurs from Santa Cruz called an indefinite strike to demand that the census take place in 2023, instead of 2024 as proposed by the national government, given that it determines the distribution of resources between the regions of the country.
The population and housing census, established by the Bolivian Constitution to be carried out every 10 years, was initially scheduled for November 16, 2022, but was postponed for technical reasons to 2024, in a meeting between President Luis Arce and the regional authorities.
This Saturday marks the 36th day of the strike in Santa Cruzcornerstone of the opposition to Arce’s government, to ask for a redistribution of resources and parliamentary seats that depend on the census.
This law approved by Deputies establishes a “new distribution of resources in tax sharing starting from the month of September 2024”.
The regulation also orders the National Statistical Institute to send the official data of the future census to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal so that a bill can be drawn up for the distribution of seats based on the data and which would be in force in the next general election scheduled for 2025.
During the session, the deputies of the official Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) called for prison for the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, whom they accuse of economic losses, including violence, even deaths, during the strike.
Former President Evo Morales asked the same on his Twitter account: “The crimes of the confessed coup leader Camacho against defenseless citizens of Santa Cruz for the ‘crime’ of wanting to work should not go unpunished.”
“We ask that the government and justice ministries arrest and prosecute him for committing crimes in flagrante delicto,” he said, saying that if the opposition leader is not tried, “it will be demonstrated once again that he has a political agreement with the government, “In the middle of the internal crossings between the former president and the Arce.
With information from the Telam Agency
Source: Clarin
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