“In order not to spill the blood of the people, we passed this law on the census, listening to the people,” the head of state emphasized during his televised address.
Bolivia’s crucial population census will be held on March 23, 2024, after several weeks of protests and violence due to an opposition uprising in Santa Cruz, which deserved to be rushed, leftist President Luis Arce announced on Friday.
“In order not to spill the blood of the people, we passed this law on the census, listening to the people,” the head of state emphasized during his televised address.
The protests lasted 36 days in the Santa Cruz region, the engine of the Bolivian economy and stronghold of the right-wing opposition, with a central demand to speed up the crucial population census ahead of 2025 elections.
The census makes it possible to define the distribution of seats in Congress and the public funds corresponding to each region of the country. The local government in Santa Cruz, the most populous region of the Andean country, considered that it was wronged because the most recent census was done more than ten years ago, so the official data has nothing to do with reality.
The protests he organized—according to the official account of the authorities, resulted in the death of 4 people and the injury of nearly 200 others—came to an end on November 26, the day the Bolivian Parliament adopted a draft law submitted by the government guaranteeing the population census in March 2024.
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