Legislators, unions and activists announced mobilizations and complaints to international organizations rejecting Supreme Decree (DS) 5143 because they consider that it violates the constitutional right to private property.
The questioned DS 5143 contemplates the creation of the Single System of Real Rights with the purpose of modernizing the registry.
The central government admitted that the scope of DS 5143 was not socialized, but they are willing to do so.
The Vice Minister of Government Coordination, Gustavo Torrico, pointed out that socialization was lacking. “I don’t know, it would have to be explained, we would have to see, but in the meantime all hell has already broken loose,” he said.
The protests against the decree are because private property is put at risk; However, Torrico maintained that the aim is to provide greater legal security to the owners.
The Vice Minister explained that, with the rule, an interconnected system will be generated with other registries, such as the General Personal Identification Service (Segip), which can be consulted by notaries to avoid scams in the purchase and sale of properties.
The deputy of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) of the evista wing Santos Mamani denounced that DS 5143 establishes that the Agency for Electronic Government and Information and Communication Technologies (Agetic) is responsible for the implementation of the Single System for the Registry of Real Rights with the purpose is to create taxes and expropriate land. “If a social function is not enforced for the land in the provinces and in rural areas, it will be expropriated,” he explained.
He questioned that the Executive intends to control Real Rights through Agetic, dependent on the Ministry of Government, and all the information about the assets and their owners will be concentrated, leaving aside the protection of the property right that until now is guarded by the Body Judicial.
On the subject, Torrico clarified that Agetic will be in charge of generating the system, but the administration will continue to be the responsibility of the Judicial Branch.
The senator from the We Believe alliance Centa Rek said that there will be protest marches in several regions of the country on May 10 for the Government to repeal the supreme decree.
The unions of El Alto announced a march through the center of La Paz to protest against the decree because it would seek to seize properties and, among other sectors, the Federation of Self-Employed Workers declared itself in a state of emergency.
The National Committee for the Defense of Democracy (Conade) warned that the legal security of private property is at risk and demand its abrogation. They pointed out that at no time was it requested that the Executive control this distribution of the Judicial Branch.
The purpose of DS No 5143
• Standardization of services and uniform procedures throughout the State.
• Use of electronic government tools through the unique DDRR system, to facilitate procedures for the population.
• Transparency in the entry of economic resources, through banking payments.
The Government denounces wave of misinformation
The Government rejected the versions about the objectives of Supreme Decree 5143, of the Registry of Real Rights, and denounced a disinformation campaign by the opposition and the “new right”, in reference to the “evista” wing of the MAS.
The “bad information” that has been generated against this norm has political objectives, assured the Minister of Justice and Institutional Transparency, Iván Lima.
Lima said that article 4 of the norm states that the registry of Real Rights “is in charge of the Council of the Judiciary” and not of any ministry, as opposition politicians denounce.
He also denied that President Luis Arce designates any magistrate to take charge of Real Rights and that this power is in charge of the Judicial Council, according to article 6.
“What we have done with the supreme decree is to establish clear rules that allow Bolivians to have a new system that allows Bolivians to have consolidated and assured property rights,” he remarked.
