However, the 56th qualified majority in the Legislative Assembly caused a political process between two allied political parties, New Ideas and GANA.
President Nayib Bukele addressed the country on Sunday, just over a week after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially released the results of the 2021 legislative and municipal elections.
In the national network, Bukele announced that the new Assembly, with a majority of the ruling party, “will not negotiate with ARENA and FMLN”. The president said the “mandate of the people” is not to negotiate with those parties.
With this, Bukele makes it clear that the New Idea – GANA alliance will be in place, to the point where it has already closed the door for the ruling party to negotiate with the political opposition in the next legislature. Instead, the president said they would be open to negotiating with other sectors.
The TSE confirmed, after the final control, that the ruling party obtained the highest number of votes in the last elections.
However, the 56th qualified majority representative in the Legislative Assembly provoked a political dispute between two allied political parties, New Ideas and the Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA).
SEE: Trial between “family” for vote 56 of the Legislative Assembly
This, after the presiding magistrate of EST, Dora Esmeralda Barahona, the representative of the GANA party, wrote on Friday night on her Twitter account that the New Ideas party had 55 deputies and a day later that it had 56 deputies.
The truth is that EST recognizes that NI has 46 pure deputies, 10 in the coalition, of which 9 were proposed by NI and one by the GANA party, which corresponds to the Cabañas department.
GANA grants it because it was proposed by them. However, the reality is that both parties are allies and together form 61 votes for the qualified majority.
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