The former Constitutional Court magistrate said President Nayib Bukele cannot refuse to comply with the binding order of the Legislative Assembly.
“If the Legislature saw that there were serious human rights violations by a public security official and recommends dismissal in a binding manner, the President cannot refuse to comply with it,” the former Chamber magistrate said. of the Constitutional, Rodolfo González, after the approval of the final report of the Congress on the director of the PNC, Mauricio Arriaza Girls, of whom it certifies violated human rights to the accomplice of the taking of the Legislative Assembly that starred Nayib Bukele on 9 February.
The former magistrate claims that Bukele can go to the Chamber if he does not agree with the resolution, “but to do what the Government always does to say that the interpretation of the Assembly is wrong would leave in office someone who no longer is a director “.
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On the other hand, he said that if Arriaza Noies remains as director of the PNC, despite the binding order of dismissal, “it would be a usurpation of functions.”
Daniel Olmedo, a constitutionalist lawyer, reinforced what has been said by the former magistrate and added that based on the evidence gathered, the Congress “has concluded that with the collaboration of the now former director of the PNC in the ‘9F coup d’etat violated representative democracy and violated the right to vote of Salvadorans, a human right recognized in the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “
Olmedo added that Nayib Bukele “is not the constitutional court that will determine whether this decision is constitutional or not, for that is the Constitutional Chamber.”
For their part, a conglomerate of seven civil society organizations spoke out on Thursday and demanded that the 9F coup attempt not be left unpunished.
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“The decision of the Legislative Assembly (to order the removal of Arriaza Noies) is part of a series of actions to deduce responsibilities for the attempted coup,” said Citizen Action, ANEP, the Center for ‘Legal Studies, DTJ, Fon, FUSADES and the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law. They also asked the prosecution to investigate whether sedition or other crimes were committed.
