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Santa Cruz will increase its seats in the next legislative elections, according to INE projections

Protests in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for the celebration of the 2023 census. – Diego Tejerina/dpa

The allocation of parliamentary seats to the nine departments of Bolivia varies depending on the evolution of the population in each of these, so based on data from the National Institute of Statistics, Santa Cruz will increase its number of seats, being able to reach to become the largest bank in the country.

The Plurinational Electoral Body (OEP) is in charge of carrying out this modification and once the new census is carried out, it will convene a meeting to materialize the changes, for the first time since 2013, the year in which Santa Cruz, the second largest city and the economic engine of the country, increased its presence in the Chamber.

The Electoral Regime Law was promulgated in 2010 and it assigned a certain number of representatives to each of the nine departments, in accordance with the then recently approved Constitution. However, after the 2012 census, the positions granted to each of these regions were reconfigured, according to ‘El Debate’.

Thus, with the Seat Distribution Law, Santa Cruz obtained 28 deputies, which increased the number of seats by three compared to the 2009 general elections. On the contrary, the departments of Potosi, Chuquisaca and Beni each lost one representative .

Almost ten years later, while the Latin American country waits for the census to be held, which has generated weeks of protests due to the refusal of the Government of Luis Arce to carry it out in 2023, the INE projections indicate that the same could happen. process, due to the great business weight that the department has acquired.

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