The Bolivian Senate gives the green light to the census law
The Bolivian Senate has given the ‘green light’ this Tuesday, after four hours of debate, to the population census law after having the approval of the Chamber of Deputies and will now have to be promulgated by the Bolivian leftist president, Luis Arce.
The Upper House has approved the initiative with the support of 22 senators after several hours of heated discussion between members of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) caucus, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Deber’.
The census law has been accompanied by controversy and clashes in Santa Cruz, the country’s main economic region and where the opposition has become strong in recent weeks with a series of protests demanding the advance of the census.
Thus, since last October 22, the Inter-institutional Committee for the Promotion of the Santa Cruz Census announced an indefinite strike, although after its approval in the Chamber of Deputies -with 91 votes in favor, 25 against and three blank-, it was suspended, as reported by the newspaper ‘La Razón’.
Luis Arce had set the population census for March 2024, while opponents have taken to the streets in recent days to demand that the process be carried out a year earlier, in 2023.
With information from Gaceta
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