Bolivia celebrates nine days of unemployment while it is debated to repeal a controversial law

Bolivia meets this Tuesday the ninth day of protests against a controversial law designated for violating citizen freedoms that has articulated sectors such as transporters, merchants, citizens and opponents of the Government, and that is on the way to be repealed in Parliament.

The demonstrations, blockade points and vigils have been maintained in some regions such as Santa Cruz, the epicenter of the protests and the main political bastion of the opposition, in the capital Sucre, Potosí and in Cochabamba the normal activity of traffic and commerce is still pending.

In several areas of Santa Cruz, blockade points persist with corners where the protesters have left rubble or have spread flags with inscriptions from end to end of some streets that say “No to law 1386″ Of the National Strategy to Combat the Legitimization of Illicit Profits and the Financing of Terrorism, the rule rejected.

However, in that region the demands also include the cancellation of the so-called “cursed laws”In addition to the replacement of the two-thirds vote in the debate regulations of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, where the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) has a majority.

In Sucre, the traffic police have identified around 37 blocking points, several of them organized by transport sectors, while the interdepartmental bus station has operated in a minimal percentage.

The Civic Committee of Potosí (Comcipo) stressed that the pressure measures will be maintained until the Government promulgates the annulment of Law 1386, something that has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies this morning and that continues to be discussed in the Senate.

In Cochabamba, entities such as the regional Committee for the Defense of Democracy (Conade) have chosen to maintain the state of emergency until Parliament concludes with the procedure to annul the regulation and the national Executive finally approves it.

Protests this Wednesday

Although the ruling party indicates that President Luis Arce has “honored his commitment” last Saturday when he announced the annulment of the law, more demonstrations in favor and against the Government are anticipated for this Wednesday.

The Paceñidad Assembly, chaired by the opposition mayor of La Paz, Iván Arias, has scheduled a march in the host city of the Bolivian Government for the annulment of the “package of laws” observed and the restitution of two-thirds of the vote in the Legislative.

Given this, also sectors related to the Government have announced concentrations such as the one that is expected to be organized in the neighboring city of El Alto with the “Great People’s Council” that will demonstrate against the indefinite civic strike that began on Monday of last week.

Parliamentary debate

Despite the fact that the Senate is discussing the annulment of Law 1386, the legislators of the MAS and the opposition Citizen Community and Creemos have become involved in the controversy over the “explanatory statement”Of the law of annulment of rule 1386.

This dissent was already presented at dawn when the Chamber of Deputies approved the annulment and referred that legal text to the Senate.

The MAS maintains that the annulment of the law is done because a second was brewing “coup“As you consider happened during the 2019 crisis, and there was a deliberate”disinformation”In the scope of the law, while the opposition asks the ruling party to admit that it failed to socialize the legal text.

Bolivia has been going through a persistent political polarization for two years that has been exacerbated in recent days by regional protests for the annulment of laws, although the Government saw in this an attempt to destabilize and the interest of political groups in seeking impunity for the events of the 2019.