Deputies reiterated that the Executive cannot change the day of the Peace Accords, if not by agreement of the Assembly, given Bukele’s insistence on not knowing this historic fact.
Óscar Santamaría, one of the signatories of the Peace Accords in 1992, stated that the freedoms and democracy in El Salvador, including the exercise of the current government of President Nayib Bukele, are “allowed by the Peace Accords, not another, the Savior is another, after the signing of the Peace Accords, “he said.
Santamaría reacted like this after the declarations of president Nayib Bukele, who points out that the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992 was a “farce” and a “deception”.
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“The whole scenario we are in now, even those who govern us, is a product of the Peace Accords,” Santamaría said, but Bukele downplays it to the extent that he decided to issue an executive decree to change the celebration. of the signing of the peace of January 16, for the “day of the victims of the armed conflict,” which the deputies warn him that he cannot do, only the Assembly by legislative decree.
Santamaría has stated that although there are still debts to fulfill as is social peace, it is up to “Salvadorans to lay the foundation of what we have done, peaceful, harmonious coexistence, but has other challenges, the development” of the country, for example , delimited the signer of peace.
The President of the Assembly, Mario Ponce, of the PCN, has regretted that they want to erase the historical fact that marked the Savior and ended 12 years of war.
Former President Alfredo Cristiani, a peace signatory, also attended the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the Peace Accords. Photo by EDH Jonatan Funes
“No one can change the Peace Accords,” Ponce said, adding that the country is in a solid, democratic state, which is why the National Guard and the Treasury Police were abolished, and the Police were created. National, but not “subject to one person, but to the civilian population,” he reflected.
Ponce said he was part of the blood that stained this stage of the Savior with the death of several of his relatives. “No matter how much I say the Peace Accords was a farce, this is not going to get me back to my relatives. My blood is part of the armed conflict,” Ponce said.
This Monday, the Assembly held a commemorative event at the Signing of the Peace Accords, attended by signatories and representatives of the United Nations.
Former President Alfredo Cristiani, of SAND, stated that the Peace Accords marked a “special milestone in the history of the Savior, the Assembly called it the day of the Peace Accords, this can not be changed legally. January 16, 1992 marked some Peace Accords that ended an armed conflict, this will not change the name you want to give it, “he said.
For Cristiani, the signing of the peace led to strictly political agreements to generate spaces for participation that did not exist, which were not in the economic and social, so he has considered that they are areas pending improvement in the country.
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ARENA MP René Portillo Quadra mentioned that while Bukele talks about changing the names of legislative decrees, “billions are going undeclared, hiding, wasting money, especially making ‘coronobisnes’ of all this.”
“It’s another smokescreen trying to get away with the cotangent to ignore the billions of dollars that this government has irresponsibly managed,” Portillo Quadra pointed out.
Oscar Santamaría, one of the signatories of the Peace Accords of 1992, talks with the deputy Rodrigo Avila. Photo EDH / Jonatan Funes