The meeting in the administrative contentious chamber followed a lawsuit filed by Funde ALAC against the appointment of Douglas Pablo Rodríguez Fuentes as president of BCR.
The hearing against the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, which will take place this morning in the Administrative Litigation Chamber, for the appointment of the President of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCR) Douglas Pablo Rodríguez Fuentes, was subsequently suspended by the applicant, Centro de Asesoría Legal Anticorrupción of El Salvador (ALAC), challenged the fact that Rodríguez had as lawyers the lawyers of the BCR legal team.
Although the lawsuit is against Bukele, the current head of BCR is part of this lawsuit.
For Wilson Sandoval, lawyer and coordinator of Funde Alac, what the BCR president did is a violation of government ethics, “At the hearing I noticed that those who defended him are the same BCR lawyers and that it is unethical, contrary to the law of government ethics.” said Sandoval.
According to the lawyer, in the contentious process, Rodríguez Fuentes appears in his personal non-institutional character, ie the lack of curriculum or lack of motivation of the qualifications of the mentioned civil servant is a personal and particular element of such a person, which moves away from the institutional activity. as president of BCR.
SEE: The new president of BCR, Douglas Rodríguez, does not comply with the legal requirement for his position
On October 27 of the previous year, ALAC filed a lawsuit against Executive Agreement no. 350, of September 19, 2020, issued by the President of the Republic, consisting in the appointment of Mr. Douglas Pablo Rodríguez Fuentes as President of the Reserved Central Bank, in order not to prove the attitudes or requirements required by law, in this case, the Organic Law of BCR .
Requirements to be met by anyone appointed to this position include proof of at least 10 years of economic experience. According to the lawsuit, Rodríguez Fuentes does not have or has the academic technical experience required by the position.
Specifically, the first paragraph of Article 10 of the BCR Organic Law stipulates that, in order to be appointed a member of BCR’s board of directors, the designated person must “have notable economic and financial powers”; while the second paragraph of art. 25, stipulates that the chairman of the BCR Board of Directors, “in addition to the requirements set out in Article 10 of this law, must have at least ten years of experience in economic and financial matters.
Rodríguez was appointed president of BCR on September 19, after the removal of Nicolás Martínez, after appearing before deputies and claiming that the government of Nayib Bukele had more than 3 billion dollars to participate in the emergency due to the COVID pandemic 19 This contradicted the government’s version that they had no resources, so they launched a campaign against MPs.
After Martínez left, Rodríguez Fuentes arrived, but with his arrival, Alac’s request. Due to the use of state resources to deal with a personal lawsuit, ALAC assured that it will report to the Government Ethics Tribunal in the coming days.
After admitting the ALAC incidents, the Administrative Litigation Chamber rescheduled the meeting for February 3, Sandoval said.
Diario de Hoy tried to obtain the institutional version of BCR or its president, but it was not possible. Fatima Quispe, from the communication office of that institution, promised to transfer the request and then communicate with this newspaper with the answer obtained, but at the time of publication of this material, she did not do so.