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The opposition denounces the coup in El Salvador

  • The political situation in the smallest country in Central America is developing. It wasn’t a year ago that Nayib Bukele, “the president of change,” took power. Faced with the refusal of your proposal in Parliament, last Sunday, 9 February, he appeared accompanied by soldiers in an extraordinary plenary to urge the opposition to accept the proposal. The other parties have called the event "coup d'état" and "coup d'état".

11 February 2020 - 11:02
El Salvadorreko militarrak parlamentuan.

The Territorial Control Plan has been the cause of all this conflict, which involves increasing the presence of police and military forces to deal with the country ' s gangs. The plan, which has a budget of $575 million, has a proposal of $109 million m s.Sin embargo, has been rejected by the assembly, which has rejected the proposal.

Many analysts have described the president as an embodiment of populism and millenals. He has faced this refusal as usual. He has called on his supporters to surround Parliament and preside over the opposition to vote in favour of reform. Not content with that, the military has also pressed, entering Parliament with the President of the Generalitat.

It has given a "deadline" of one week for opposition parties to accept their propuesta.Si, it has encouraged citizens to apply Article 87 of the Constitution allowing for popular rebellion.

Bukele speaks to his supporters outside Parliament.

The opposition has denounced the attempted coup d'état suffered by eta. FMLN Deputy Daniel Reyes said in this interview of Telesur that “these images have not been seen since the time of the military dictatorship. We have been following the Peace Accords for 28 years with democratic institutions. We are at a very difficult time, they seem to want to establish a dictatorial government.”

“President of Change”

Nayib Bukel ended almost 30 years of Bipartisanship on 1 June of the year pasado.El former mayor of the capital and militant of the former guerrilla party FMLN was expelled from the party for a scandal. However, after seeing that he wanted to go to the country’s presidency and create and disappear a party that did not meet the necessary requirements, he presented himself in a right-wing coalition called GANA. And he won.

5,200,000 people were called to the polls to exercise the right to vote. Of these, 1,300,000 votes, one million more than those won the same match in the past elecciones.El FMLN, its previous match, lost more than one million votes, while the FMLN lost nearly one million.


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