Opposition MPs called it “political bullying” for the President of the Republic to post on Twitter the photo of heavily armed soldiers following a resolution by the Chamber that suspended Walter Araujo’s candidacy for deputy for the New Ideas party. They argue that Bukele does not give up on the attitude shown in 9F and goes back in decades when the Army was used to repress.
For the ARENA deputies, René Portillo Quadra; Rodolfo Parker, of the PDC; and Schafik Handal of the FMLN, the publication of the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, of a group of armed soldiers, minutes after the Constitutional Chamber decided to suspend the candidacy of Walter Araujo as deputy for New Ideas, demonstrates “political bullying” on the part of Bukele, “inability to dialogue” and a setback to decades in which the Army used it to “dictatorial governments to repress.”
“Actually this image that the president (Bukele) published of military personnel with long weapons and war clothes all he does is boycott the administration of justice in El Salvador, what he wants is to intimidate the Constitutional Chamber in the face of resolutions he has issued, we regret that the president’s response to the ruling of the Constitutional Court is arms and force, “said Portillo Quadra.
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He added that when a ruler uses political force and power to intimidate another state body it is because he does not have “the necessary arguments to rebut judicial decisions”.
“In the case of Walter Araujo it must be said in summary, the room what determined is that Mr. Walter Araujo has no morals to be a candidate for deputy in El Salvador or a popularly elected official, the court decisions are whether we like it or not, but as the president for his authoritarian and totalitarian vocation does not respect the decisions of other state bodies, we see the need to tell the Salvadoran people that this message of strength and brutality that you use the president is only given in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, where democracy and human beings are in the background, “said Portillo Quadra.
For his part, Parker externalized that a few days before the one-year anniversary of the military break-in of the legislature on February 9, 2020, Bukele instead of correcting has increased his inability to maintain dialogue as a tool for solve problems of Salvadorans.
“Instead of rectifying it has worsened much more, the existence of a republican system of government has been put in high danger, the danger came and passed the line, it is delicate, because when there is concentration of power what happens is more hunger, more violence, that’s what Bukele is bringing us, this photo that came up is a demonstration of what I’m saying, ”Parker lamented.
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While Handal says that the image posted on Twitter of the Army by Bukele is “a threat” that goes back to the country in a situation of despair like the one that Salvador lived in the sixties, seventies and eighties with the use of the army not to guarantee the rights of the population, but to harass.
“What does it say there ?, man anyone who opposes what the king says will be repressed, this happened in the sixties, seventies and eighties, in which dissenting from official thought was a candidate to be thrown at you the quill of the Armed Forces, no longer as an institution guaranteeing respect for civilian power, but simply a bitch who is at the king’s disposal and throws it at you whenever she wants, that’s what the photo says, “Handal argued.