The deputies reiterated that the Executive cannot change the day of the Peace Agreements, if it is not by the agreement of the Assembly, at Bukele’s insistence for ignoring this historical fact.
Óscar Santamaría, one of the signatories of the 1992 peace agreements, said that the freedoms and democracy that El Salvador is experiencing, including the exercise of the current government of President Nayib Bukele, are “allowed by peace agreements, not another, El Salvador is another , after the signing of the Peace Accords, “he said.
Santamaría reacted in this way to the statements of President Nayib Bukele, Emphasizing that the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992 was a ‘prank’ and a ‘prank’.
SEE: Bukele cannot ignore the Peace Day law, nor can he amend the legislative decree
“The whole scenario we are in now, including those who govern us, is a product of the Peace Accords,” Santamaría said, but Bukele downplayed it, as he decided to issue an executive decree to change the celebration. signing peace. on January 16, for “the day of the victims of the armed conflict”, something that the deputies warn that he cannot do, only the Assembly by legislative decree.
Santamaría said that although there are still debts to be fulfilled, such as social peace, it corresponds to “Salvadorans lay the foundation of what we have done, peaceful and harmonious coexistence, but has other challenges, the development” of the country, for example, said the signatory peace.
The President of the Assembly, Mario Ponce, from PCN, regretted that they want to erase the historical fact that marked El Salvador and ended the 12 years of war.
Former President Alfredo Cristiani, a signatory to the peace agreement, also attended the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the peace agreements. Photo by EDH Jonatan Funes
“No one can change the peace agreements,” Ponce said, adding that the country is in a democratic and solid state, and for this the National Guard and the Finance Police have been disbanded, and the National Police has been created, but not “subject to a single person, but to the civilian population “, he reflected.
Ponce said he was part of the blood that stained that stage in El Salvador with the death of several of his relatives. “No matter how much I say that the Peace Accords were a farce, that will not bring me back to my relatives. My blood is part of the armed conflict, “Ponce said.
On Monday, the Assembly held a commemorative ceremony to sign the Peace Accords attended by signatories and representatives of the United Nations.
Former President Alfredo Cristiani of ARENA said the peace accords marked a “special milestone in the history of El Salvador, the Assembly called it the day of the peace accords, which cannot be legally changed. January 16, 1992 marked the Peace Accords that ended an armed conflict, which will not change the name you want to give, “he said.
For Cristiani, the signing of the peace presupposed strictly political agreements to generate spaces for participation that did not exist, which were not from an economic and social point of view, for which he considered that these are areas in improvement in the country.
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ARENA MP René Portillo Cuadra mentioned that, while Bukele talks about changing the names of legislative decrees, “they spend billions without declaring, hiding them, wasting money, especially making” coronobisne “from all this”.
“It’s another smoke trying to get through the cotangent to avoid the billions of dollars this government has irresponsibly administered,” Portillo Cuadra said.
Óscar Santamaría, one of the signatories of the 1992 Peace Accords, talks with Congressman Rodrigo Ávila. Photo EDH / Jonatan Funes