The Assembly received a total of 4 vetoes from the Executive on Wednesday, two rejecting them as “unconstitutional” and two being observed by Bukele.
President Nayib Bukele sent vetoes to the Assembly Four legislative decrees, one of them referring to the declaration that deputies approved last January 13 to declare 2021 as the “Year of the Bicentennial of Independence and Agreements of Peace in El Salvador “, one of his arguments is that the deputies did not consult the Armed Forces as an important part of the peace process in 1992.
His rejection comes shortly after at an event in Mozote he said that the signing of the Peace Accords was a “farce and a deception.”
Bukele vetoed the legislative decree as “unconstitutional.” According to the president, he does not meet the requirements for consultation with Salvadoran society, the Executive and the Armed Forces to give this category 2021.
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“According to art. 168, ord. 3 of the Constitution, one of the attributions and obligations of the President of the Republic is’ to seek social harmony, and to preserve the inner peace and tranquility and the security of the human person as a member of society. ‘In this respect, it is known that an important actor in the process that Legislative Decree 812 seeks to recognize is the Armed Forces, in its capacity as a permanent institution of service of the Nation, ”says part of Bukele’s arguments.
He added that the judgment of unconstitutionality 4-2012 issued by the Chamber detailed the principles that should govern military service and that are in fact “taken up by recent Salvadoran constitutional history, specifically from the Peace Accords and the new democratic connotation that they tried to establish “.
For this reason there is a clear link between the “essence of this institution and the negotiation and signing of various political agreements between the Government and the FMLN, which led to the signing of the same Peace Agreements, which ended the Salvadoran armed conflict “.
According to Bukele, the Peace Accords, according to the Constitutional Chamber, “show a tripartite conformation: it is an initially political pact, with legal implications and transcendent social repercussions, so that everything that derives from these Agreements must to enjoy the same tripartite conformation, being indispensable that of side to all the sectors “.
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In addition, he points out that the Assembly did not take into account the joint intervention of men and women from all sectors of society, from “here that the involvement of the community within the Commission of Culture and Education of the Legislative Assembly in order to determine whether these historical facts that they seek to recognize with such a declaration, in fact, represent the feeling of the community, that is, whether the population actually identifies with the celebration of the year 2021 , as the Bicentennial Year of Independence and the Peace Accords “.
Recapitulating, Bukele points out the violation of Articles 85 and 135 of the Constitution, in the fact that the Assembly had to carry out compliance with the “principles of representative democracy and publicity that had to be reflected under the involvement of the President of the Republic and the Armed Forces in the Commission of Culture and Education.
He also vetoed as unconstitutional Legislative Decree 810, passed on January 7, 2021, which contains “Transitional Provision to ensure the payment of compensation to former workers of the defunct ANTEL, who to date have not received such benefit.” .
In addition, it again observed Legislative Decree 809, approved on January 7, 2021, which contains “Special Provision of Incentives for the Use of Bicycles as a Means of Transport.”
As well as Legislative Decree 813, passed on January 13, 2021, which contains the “Reform to the Transitional Provision Protecting Workers with Medical Conditions Vulnerable to VOCID-19.”