The vice president and head of the Legislative Assembly, David Choquehuanca, convened the first session of the new legislative year, to meet in the ALP chamber.

According to the Vice Presidency of the State, the agenda establishes as the first point “the inauguration of the 2023-2024 legislature” by Choquehuanca. The second topic is the “management report of the constitutional president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora.”

“(…) This is a very important space in which we have to provide a report on the work that has been carried out, we will do it in a very responsible manner, with data (…)”, said Vice Minister of Communication Gabriela Alcón at a press conference, according to whom the report has to do with what Arce’s management has meant, and the work carried out by the 17 Ministries.

Statistics show that in the first half of this year, Bolivia achieved a 2.21 percent economic growth, placing it among the countries with the highest economic growth in the region, only behind Paraguay and Brazil, and ahead of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Peru.

From a labor point of view, Bolivia registered an urban unemployment rate of 3.76% in August of this year, and an inflation of 1.49% in September, considered as one of the lowest of the continent.

Bolivia exhibits the lowest unemployment rate in its history, said the Minister of Labor, Verónica Navia, at the 46th Meeting of the Technical Commission of the International Labor Organization (ILO), held in October in the Dominican Republic. She added: “This is because the four pillars of the economy (private, state, community, and social cooperative) are job generators, whether workers are employed or self-employed.”

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