Opposition MPs have called for “political bullying” for the president to post on Twitter a photo of heavily armed soldiers following a House resolution suspending Walter Araujo’s candidacy for deputy for the New Ideas party. They claim that Bukele does not give up the attitude shown by 9F and goes back to the decades when the army was used to repress.
For the ARENA deputies, René Portillo Cuadra; Rodolfo Parker, of the PDC; and Schafik Hándal, from FMLN, the publication of the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, of a group of armed soldiers, a few minutes after the Constitutional Chamber decided to suspend Walter Araujo’s candidacy as a deputy for New Ideas, demonstrates “politics” on his part Bukele, the “inability to dialogue” and a return to decades in which the military used “dictatorial governments to repress”.
“In fact, this image that the president (Bukele) published about military personnel with long weapons and war suits, all he does is boycott the administration of justice in El Salvador, what he wants is to intimidate the Constitutional Chamber before the resolutions “We regret that the president’s response to the decision of the Constitutional Chamber is arms and force,” said Portillo Cuadra.
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He added that when a leader uses political force and power to intimidate another state body, it is because he does not have the “necessary arguments to overturn court decisions.”
“In the case of Walter Araujo it must be said as a summary, the Chamber determined that Mr. Walter Araujo has no morality to be a candidate for deputy in El Salvador or a popularly elected official, judicial decisions are respected, like it or not, but from Since the president, due to his authoritarian and totalitarian vocation, does not respect the decisions of other state bodies, we need to tell the Salvadoran people that the message of force and brutality used by the president is given only in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, where democracy and the human being is in the background, ”said Portillo Cuadra.
For his part, Parker said that a few days after the military coup in the legislative chamber on February 9, 2020, Bukele increased his inability to maintain a dialogue as a tool to solve Salvadorans’ problems instead of correction.
“Instead of rectifying, it has become much worse, the existence of a republican system of government has been put in great danger, danger has arrived and the line is crossed, it is delicate, because when there is a concentration of power what happens is more a lot of hunger, more violence, that’s what Bukele leads us to, that photo he uploaded is a demonstration of what I’m saying, “Parker cried.
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While Hándal says that the image posted on Twitter by the Bukele Army is a “threat” that puts the country back in a situation of despair like the one that El Salvador experienced in the sixties, seventies and eighties with the use of the army not for to guarantee the rights of the population, but to intimidate them.
“What does he say there?” Anyone who opposes what the king says will be repressed, what happened in the sixties, seventies and eighties, when dissent from official thought was a candidate for the Armed Forces package, no more as an institution that guarantees respect for power civil, but simply a package that is at the king’s disposal and that he throws to you whenever he wants, that’s what the photo says ”, argued Hándal.