El Salvador: International condemnation of the Supreme Court’s decision to hold re-election of Naib Bukele

Director of the United States International apology (For), Erica Guevara-Rosas, They said they would be watching El Salvador this SaturdayReport violating proceduresHuman Rights and Warning Removal of companies.

“We face dictatorial governments that undermine institutions that violate human rights in the world. El Salvador has proven to be no exceptionGuevara-Rosas posted on Twitter.

He added at Amnesty InternationalWe have eyes to condemn the human rights abuses of the government of Naib Bukele in El Salvador”.

The release comes just hours after judges of the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Council, appointed by the ruling majority in Congress on May 1, overturned the 2014 ruling. Implement presidential re-election immediately.

In the ruling, the judges ordered the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to “allow a person who holds the office of President of the Republic and who is not immediately president in the previous term to run for a second term.”

This paves the way for Bukele to seek re-election in 2024. With the interpretation given in 2014 to paragraph 1 of Article 152 of the Constitution, it had to wait until 2034.

Judges 2014 Interpretation “WrongMoreover, they pointed out that, in their opinion, the Constitution allows a citizen to be president for a maximum of 10 years.

Another of those who reacted to it Jose Miguel Vivango, Director of the United States Human Rights Watch. “El Salvador’s Constituent Assembly – captured by Bukele in May this year – allowed Bukele to stand for re-election. Same script used by Daniel Ortega and Juan Orlando Hernandez“, He revealed on Twitter.

I add: “Democracy is on the brink of an abyss in El Salvador”.

Meanwhile, the former president of Bolivia George Tudo Guerrero Said: “Bad judicial maneuver in El Salvador to carry out presidential re-election. Buccaneer follows in the footsteps of Ortega in Nicaragua, Juan Orlando Hernandez in Honduras and Evo Morales in Bolivia.

“Its slave judges are declaring the constitution unconstitutional. The tyrants are a terrible oxymoron to extend themselves into power,” he concluded his message on Twitter.

For its part, Tamara SujuA human rights lawyer and the managing director of Casla were surprised: “What will happen to the Latin leaders who do everything to stay in power? The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court gave a new interpretation to the Constitution to allow immediate presidential re-election.

On May 1, the El Salvador Legislature, with a large pro-government majority, He fired constitutional judges and appointed five lawyers to fill the vacancies.

International Community Criticized this act They see it as a blow against the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

One of the appointed judges Bukele is a former adviser to the executive, a lawyer for the current director of police and a former commissioner of the public information access company, Which was selected by Bukele in a controversial process.

The 40-year-old president won the 2019 presidential election First round and with wide advantage. In addition, its popularity prompted the New Ideas Party, led by one of its cousins, to win 56 of the 84 seats in Congress.

Bukele did not comment on social media, but some of his officials and representatives of New Ideas praised the ruling and encouraged his re-election.

On June 1, at the end of his two-year rule, the president said, “God will not allow the country to retreat into an organization that” strengthens us “by plunging us into crime, corruption, inequality and poverty.

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