The general secretary of the left-wing party laid flowers at the monument to the fallen during the armed conflict, at the beginning of the celebration of the 29th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords.
“I think some and especially the ruling group is thinking of going back from hope to madness and madness is what we saw in the United States recently and we see apprentices here, learners of this madness and augmented …”, stated the secretary general of the FMLN, Oscar Ortiz this Sunday in the park Cuscatlán.
The leader of the left-wing party, along with other militants, placed a floral offering on the wall of the fallen during the armed conflict, as part of the start of the 29th anniversary of the signing of the Accords of Pau.
Ortiz began his press conference by thanking the health care staff who treated him at the Surgical Social Security Social Hospital after contracting COVID-19, and then gave an account of what has been built. since peace was signed in El Salvador in 1992.
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He spoke of the fact that while a democratic system was established in the country that left behind decades of “authoritarian” regimes, democracy is “tender” and now subject to the threat of “populist” voices that seek to “instrumentalize” and demerit the fact that the agreement to end a war that left mourning and thousands dead was prioritized.
“Whoever believes that the Peace Accords were not relevant to El Salvador is crazy, he should change again what he said: from madness to hope, it would be like from hope to madness,” he reiterated Ortiz.
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According to the ephemelenist leader, El Salvador is on a path of wanting to re-install “a repressive regime, where you want to play again with fear, with media terror, where you want to instrumentalize the word democracy cannot be turned into populism.The country cannot go back to those dark times, it cannot go back to those times of fear, of terror, where just to think differently you had to leave the country.Where just not to share the positions and ideas of the dominant groups you ended up imprisoned or murdered “.
Ortiz also reported that on January 16 they will launch their new electoral political platform ahead of the February 28 elections to elect deputies and mayors, where new bets led by young candidates and other experts in public management prevail.
“We will move our party’s new commitments, new alliances, new form and above all new priorities that as a party we are offering,” he said.
He recalled that the free election of future political representatives should be protected and not promote “the cult of a personality, these are models of the past, they are not models of democracy, in the cult of personality always loses society and the family, ”Ortiz said.
In this regard, Ortiz said that a political party is making use of public funds, which he has considered a “possible fraud” at the political and legal level by the government by not moving the Fodes to the mayoralties and not delivering the political debt to disputed parties.
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