Deputy Margarita Escobar said the arrival of the mission is “a strong signal that there is much to investigate here in democratic matters and also in corruption.”
The Salvadoran government, through the Council of Ministers, received this Monday at the special mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) which is in the country from Sunday and will remain three days.
As announced last week, the arrival of the mission comes just days before the February 28 elections and will seek to assess the political-institutional situation.
Santiago Cantó, former executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), heads the special mission to El Salvador sent by the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro. The international body accepted the requests sent by the government and the Legislative Assembly.
SEE: OAS will send Special Mission to El Salvador to assess institutional political situation
The mission aims to “contribute to the preservation and strengthening of the rule of law in the country, in accordance with the provisions of Article 17 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” said the press release that was also shared by Almagro in the your Twitter account.
in addition, “the Special Mission will seek to contribute to the powers of the Salvadoran State to offer full guarantees to the electoral political process that will take place” on February 28, 2021.
In addition to talking to the Government, the OAS mission will meet with representatives of institutions, politicians and civil society.
“It’s a strong signal that there’s a lot to investigate here”
For MP Margarita Escobar, the Inter-American Democratic Charter in its Article 1 is absolute and says the peoples of the Americas have the right to democracy and their governments the obligation to promote and defend it.
A basic principle of this forceful statement is the non-interference of the Army in the political affairs of any country.
On the decision of the OAS to accept the requests of the Assembly and Government to send the special mission, the ARENA deputy considered that it is “a strong signal that there is much to investigate here in democratic matters, and welcome, and also in corruption “.
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“Remember that the 9F there’s an audio from the WIN fraction faction that says this is a coup serious, and it has transcended all the networks where it is clearly stated that the 9F was a serious coup, we must investigate, it must tell the truth to the Salvadoran people and we do not play with fire, these issues have their canon political that are enshrined in the principles and values established by the highest moral, ethical and political instrument of the OAS called the Inter-American Democratic Charter, “said Deputy Escobar.
It should be noted that the Secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro, has never denounced the abuses of government power by Bukele, despite his repeated pattern of defiance of democratic norms and attempts to ignore court orders, a situation that was most evident during the handling of the pandemic by the Salvadoran government.
In addition, the OAS General Secretariat was not clear at the time to condemn the taking of the 9F Legislative Assembly, but also validated the Salvadoran Executive’s version. Almagro has been criticized for keeping silent in an attempt to coup the legislature on February 9.
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