San Salvador.
labeled as authoritarian and populist by his opponents but strengthened by the partyor who helped create, the president of the Salvador, Nayib Bukele, You can get the control of Parliament i win the majority of municipalitys in the elections on Sunday, and make sure the country control.
If the projections of the surveys are met “there would be one concentration of power in the President of the Republic, As it could pass, reform or repeal laws at his convenience “, Commented to AFP the director of the Foundation of Studies for the Application of the Law (Fespad), Saül banys.
The New Ideas (NI) party, driven by I will see, Leads election preferences according to all surveys. Currently, the legislature is controlled by opposition parties Arena (Right) and the ex-guerrilla FMLN (Left), which counterbalance him.
it’s possible “Infer” that New Ideas will get 55 deputies, one less than the qualified majority, said the rector of the Central American University (UCA), Andreu Oliva, when presenting the February 12 sor last poll on this election.
Bathrooms remembered that since the signing of the peace agreements in 1992 they ended twelve years of civil war, no party has obtained la simple majority of 43 deputies in the unicameral Congress of 84 seats, so that to govern the dialogue had to prevail.
Independence at risk
“If the election scenario is for you favorable (to Bukele), comes one profound change in constitutional and institutional matters “, warns Banys when referring to the fact that since last year a commission chaired by the vice-president, happy Ulloa, One is studied reform of the Constitution.
However, Ulloa has ruled out since in these reforms it is intended to change “petris” aspects such as the alternation in the presidency.
If the president gets a majority on Sunday in the Legislative Assembly, According to bathrooms, 1 “Risk for the country“, Would be that the president could name as officials to people who “do not perform their task of independently “.
For bathrooms, the almost two years of management dand Bukele have been characterized by some “Authoritarian actions” so that the “Concentration of power” could be used to “make little decisions democratic “.
Sunday, about 5.4 million Salvadorans they will have to elect the new Congress, at 262 country mayors and about twenty deputies of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), an institution dedicated to regional integration.
Elected officials shall assume the office of three years on May 1st.
Respond to needs
“The best ally the government (of Bukele) right now it’s not one political party, they are the same people, “political analyst and university professor Dagoberto Gutiérrez told AFP.
Conservative and with a management of populist court, the president has aimed at the traditional matches and accuses them of to have done nothing pel people.
I will see “It simply came to our notice then skillful and intelligent for it is responding to the people’s needshe is giving them food, He has given them money, He is giving other aids that no one ever gave to his people and that is its potential, ”Gutiérrez sums up.
by pandemic covid-19, Bukele since last April delivered a bonus of $ 300 to needy familieses and then distributed food among citizens.
Although, if Bukele gets a majority, “that doesn’t mean the people are giving a blank check, no, in return, he’s forcing the ‘ government to comply what has promised “, considers the analyst.
Among the promises that I will see must comply, according to Gutierrez, there is that of generate employment and look for one improving the economy.
I will see he came to power almost two years ago, and they still have him left 3 term. But it will be recently from the May 1, when he takes over the new parliament, he will start in to govern because, according to Gutiérrez, the opposition parties have not allowed it ” difficulty everything and that has taken its toll on them. “
Democracy or authoritarianism
The President of the Legislative Assembly, Mario Ponce, Who seeks his re-election how deputy, Warned that the country has only two routes: “the path of democracy and freedom and the path of authoritarianism where they restrict freedoms and individual and collective rights of all kinds are violated. “
If the Salvadorans want “living in a democracy “ they have to renew one balance of power in the country and which has historically been maintained, forcing governments to search alliances to govern.
Ponce warned that the government of Bukele sand has been characterized by “authoritarianism“, So he has considered it necessary for” people to go out and vote and maintain “the counterweights of democracy” in Congress.