The ex-parliamentarian Emma Julia Fabián, was summoned in her quality of legal representative of Tecleñas Women.
The aforementioned of this day, the former MPLN deputy, Emma Julia Fabián, assures the special commission that investigates the resources given to NGOs, that the funds that the Assembly allocated to the Asociación Dones Tecleñas up to $ 70,000 had to be returned for the death of two of the members of the Board of this Association.
Fabian reported that in 2016 they received $ 30,000 and in 2017 it was $ 40,000, but part of that money was protected in a Mortgage Bank account, which was returned to the then government. He assured that the projects could not be executed due to the death of two of its members.
There were also moments of tension during the questioning of the deputy Carles Hermann Bruch, of Noves Idees, when he demanded that Fabià say if any of the names he mentioned as members of the Association were members of the FMLN party.
Fabian argued that he knew them but could not attest to whether they belonged to the left party. At Bruch’s insistence that she be forced to respond, Fabian questioned her that her way of proceeding might fall into an act of harassment against the woman.
The deputy president of the special commission of the Assembly, Alexia Rivas, who is investigating the funds destined to NGOs within the general budgets of the State summoned for this Thursday at eleven in the morning to the ex-deputy of FMLN, Emma Julia Fabián. Fabián will arrive at the commission in his quality of legal representative of Women Tecleñas.
In a video released by Rivas, she states that she was summoned to explain the benefits that the women of the municipality of Santa Tecla have had through the NGO that Fabián represents.
“As a new legislature we are committed to correcting all these mistakes, so we have quoted Emma Julia Fabián, to say what was the mechanism that allowed the Assembly to grant money to this NGO, and what is the work that has been developing the NGO she runs for the benefit of Salvadoran women, ”Rivas said.
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Fabián exerted like deputy of the FMLN by the department of the Freedom.
So far, the commission has heard several former officials, including former FMLN MP Jorge Schafik Handal, former Communications Secretary and former Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) magistrate Eugenio Noies at the former FMLN deputy, Lorena Peña, to the former deputy and mayor of Santa Anna, of ARENA, Milena de Graó.
In the case of the former Peña deputy, her appearance was hit and full of very tense moments, as she was subject to “misogynistic” acts against her by several deputies of New Ideas, she questioned in her moment Rock.
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Committee members insist there are more than $ 273 million granted in public funds since 2010 that have not been executed on the targets for which they were transferred. As they have said, these cases will be raised to investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The special commission was created by the Assembly last May 19 only with deputies from the bureaucracy and parties related to the government: WIN and the PCN, in a crusade that has also led several deputies of New Ideas to undertake a smear campaign against civil society organizations questioning President Nayib Bukele’s decisions.
This Thursday afternoon the chair of the commission Alexia Rivas reported that they will receive a legal representative of the Green Cross to corroborate if in effect they received funds from the Assembly and if these resources were sufficient for the work they perform.