The deputies of the Political Commission agreed to issue a statement to ask the PNC and the Prosecutor’s Office to conduct a thorough investigation of the case.
The deputies of the Political Commission of the Legislative Assembly agreed in this Monday’s session to issue a statement condemning the attack on FMLN militants that took place on Sunday night in the center of San Salvador, where two people were killed and two have been injured.
The document calls on the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the National Civil Police (PNC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the attack that is taking place in the framework of the campaign for the election of mayors and deputies.
Lawmakers said they would also ask President Nayib Bukele and Vice President Felix Ulloa to avoid messages of hatred and confrontation in their speeches.
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“We make a respectful call to the international community to keep its eyes on El Salvador and the United Nations to ensure peace and other guarantees, and to support, if required by the Salvadoran State, the Attorney General’s Office. and to the National Civil Police any capacity in the framework of the investigations that these institutions carry out “, says the pronouncement.
In addition, they make a request to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union to advance the arrival of their observers for the elections to be held in the country on February 28.
Parliamentarians send a message of condolences to the families of Glòria Rogel and Joan de Déu Tejada, militants and veterans of the FMLN who lost their lives in the attack perpetrated on Sunday.
They added that it is the duties and obligations of the President of the Republic to keep sovereignty unscathed, to seek social harmony and to preserve the peace and tranquility and security of people as members of society.
The ruling will be taken to the Blue Room for approval in Wednesday’s plenary.
the reactions
Deputies from various factions condemned and lamented the attack on the left-wing party caravan.
“The brutal and rude attack on members of the FMLN party is unfortunate, condemnable and reprehensible from any point of view. And that they are not going to come out saying ‘the ARENA-FMLN marriage is defending each other’, here it is human lives, there is bloodshed that cannot be tolerated and cannot be allowed, “said ARENA MP Emilio Corea.
FMLN supporters were transported in this truck after the rally culminated. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
He commented that it is public knowledge that the attackers were transported in a blue vehicle, from which they chased the FMLN militants for several blocks, according to a witness, to shoot. In addition to that there are already detainees who are related to the security of the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, and a third party who is private security.
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“It’s not worth wanting privacy, but beware, there is confidential information that there are people of dubious origin in the list of candidates for deputies of the Noves Idees party. I call on prosecutor Raúl Melara to file his bonds trades and there is a video surveillance system, there are license plates of a car, and the least that the Minister of Health should do is actually disassociate or confirm that members of his private security are be the ones who participated, ”the legislator indicated.
He added that President Nayib Bukele, because of the investiture he has, has respect for him, but that he is asking for enough conflict, polarization, sowing and instilling hatred.
While Schafik Handal, of the FMLN, has stated that this country has already traveled this path and was already overtaken, “they are sowing winds, they are going to reap storms.”
FMLN MP Yanci Urbina condemned the attack on her party’s militancy by armed individuals in a clear act of violence.
“This aggression, this brutal armed attack that we strongly reject, resulted in two deaths. I must say that we strongly reject violence, the hatred that is being promoted from officialdom with respect to political parties. What we have seen is clearly an expression of this order and we also reject the irresponsible statements of the President of the Republic who obviously has no human consideration in relation to the people and families affected, “said the parliamentarian.
Deputy Norman Quijano, from ARENA, said that his party calls for the facts to be clarified as soon as possible and for the perpetrators to apply the full weight of the law to them, regardless of where they come from. attack.
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For his part, the deputy Maurici Vargas, of ARENA, said that democracy is in sharp decline and that political democracy is being harassed by hatred, violence, incendiary, poisonous language that is used since of the Presidential House communications manual fueling further confrontation.
“This is not new, we have days to come and say, but it really does not get the government to understand that polarization and confrontation can lead us to a sad recent past that would be very dangerous to return,” the MP said.
He is of the opinion that the message of confrontation, hatred, disqualification, marginalization, of government against the adversary is what he has in the country in these circumstances.
“I am sorry that the President has given an answer that I think we are reaching a social breakdown and to say it very clearly, the political parties are working within the framework of the law, but the President is playing outside the law and it’s injecting just confrontation, ”Vargas said.
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