As it is a binding resolution, Arriaza Chicas has already been dismissed as director of the Police. According to the ephemelenist Cristina Cornejo, if President Nayib Bukele does not abide, then he will incur the crime of disobedience.
The deputies approved this Thursday the binding dismissal of the director of the Police, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, for “human rights violations”, before, during and after February 9 in his participation in the military capture of the Assembly.
According to the final report approved with 58 votes in plenary session, it is established that Arriaza Chicas violated the right to vote by providing the conditions to pressure and intimidate deputies to vote for an action in which they did not agree , feeling the legislators represent the citizenry for having been elected by popular vote.
Since the resolution approved by the deputies is of a binding nature, Arriaza Chicas has already been dismissed as director of the Police. However, according to the ephemelenist Cristina Cornejo, if President Nayib Bukele does not abide, then he will commit the crime of disobedience.
The report states that “as of the night of February 7, 2020, the security agents assigned to deputies were separated from their ordinary work, the Protection Agents for Important Personalities (PPI agents) were summoned to the former headquarters of the political reaction group, remaining there until 11 am on February 8.
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This arrangement of the wine from the PNC, when the agents finally left the facilities where they had been summoned without being allowed to carry out their weapons, so they should return to their tasks of protection to the deputies without having any weapon ”.
“They are state officials and they are not one person’s stewards”
The deputies showed their expressions, questioning what happened on February 9. ARENA MP Mauricio Ernesto Vargas assured that civil servants have limits and will be determined by the Constitution.
“They are civil servants and they are not butlers of one person. Obedience and sum have limits and it is the Constitution. February 9 was a dark day for this Nation. The violation of the Constitution is very clear, there is no doubt, “said Vargas.
He added that 9F showed that the Government is instrumentalizing the security institutions and continues to do so. “It simply came to our notice then. We are returning to that history that our Savior wanted, and that we close it through a reform of the political system with other costs for society “, he added.
While the head of the FMLN faction, Nidia Díaz, said that President Nayib Bukele committed an act of sedition, a crime that was reported by deputies that same day to the Prosecutor’s Office, that he was closely opposed to the institutional organization of the country. , “There is the denunciation, as we did against Walter Araujo, with premeditation and treachery, intellectual and material actor, because he (Bukele) sat in that chair (of the President of the Assembly) and led the plenary and went to say: today they will know who is in charge ”, recalled Díaz.
GANA MP Guillermo Gallegos was the first to speak and explained that they would not vote for the binding removal report of the director of police, which he considered “an abuse”. In addition, it was anticipated that President Bukele will not execute what the Assembly approves this Thursday.
“This decision will not be complied with by the President of the Republic as illegal and unconstitutional, this is not correct. We are not going to vote for this opinion, “Gallegos said.
Given this, the deputies conclude in the report that was read this Thursday that “it is clear that the actions taken by the authorities were coordinated and were planned well in advance, as on the one hand left without the protection of PPI agents to deputies of the Legislative Assembly, whereas military cash took possession from the surroundings of the Legislative Palace ”.
It was also approved to recommend the removal of the Minister of Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, also give notice to the Prosecutor’s Office of the possible commission of the crimes of “rebellion and sedition” to both officials and President Nayib Bukele; the Chief of the Presidential Staff, General Manuel Antonio Acevedo López; of the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, General Carlos Alberto Tejada Murcia.
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The actions carried out are framed in Title XVII of the Penal Code: ‘Crimes Relating to the Constitutional System and Public Peace’, which contains the criminal types of rebellion, sedition, proposal, conspiracy and apology for committing rebellion Or sedition, provided for and sanctioned in article 340 and following of said normative body ”, reads part of the report.
Follows the deputies of the FMLN and ARENA, after studying the videos, evidence and testimonies received in the special commission that is obtained on February 9, it is determined that the officials in question are responsible for having participated in a “ Coup d’etat.
