MADRID, 6 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Representatives of the so-called ‘civic movement’ of Bolivia have threatened this Saturday to call a “civic” strike throughout the national territory if the Government does not set a date for the census, since they consider that it is a lack of political will and not of technical difficulties as Luis Arce defends.
“Give a clear message to the Government: If it does not find a solution, if it continues with that repressive attitude, of seeking violence, of taking this problem to the streets, confronting us among Bolivians, on Monday we are going to enter into a national civic strike throughout the country. Bolivian territory,” warned Adrián Ávila, president of the movement in Tarija, a city in the south of the country.
The representative has pointed out that citizens “have been patient” and that it is not a whim of a few, but a right of all Bolivians, so the census must be done “as soon as possible.” In addition, he has defended that the intention of the protesters is not to destabilize the Government, as the president has argued in recent weeks.
This Saturday the meeting has begun to set the date of the population and housing census of the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, origin of the “civic” strike called by the opposition against the Government of Luis Arce.
For weeks, the Executive has insisted on the need to meet technical criteria to determine the date of completion of the registration, however the protesters accuse him of wanting to delay it.
The so-called ‘civic movement’ of Bolivia began an indefinite national strike on October 22 to demand the holding of the Census in 2023, instead of 2024 as the Bolivian Government has proposed, since this registration conditions the distribution of aid between the regions from the country.
The protests are concentrating in the city of Santa Cruz, where the opposition to Luis Arce has more weight and is the country’s economic engine, where one person has lost his life during the mobilizations.
