The Political Commission deputies agreed to issue a statement asking the PNC and the Public Prosecution Service to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Deputies from the Political Committee of the Legislative Assembly agreed during Monday’s session to issue a statement condemning the attack on FMLN militants that took place in downtown San Salvador on Sunday night, where two people died and two others were injured.
In the document, they ask the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and the National Civil Police (PNC) to conduct an extensive investigation into the attack taking place in the context of the campaign for the election of mayors and delegates.
Lawmakers said they will also ask President Nayib Bukele and Vice President Félix Ulloa to avoid hateful and confrontational messages in their speeches.
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“We respectfully call on the international community to keep its focus on El Salvador and the United Nations to ensure peace and other guarantees, and support, as required by the Salvadoran state, the Attorney General’s Office and the United Nations. national police. as part of the investigations conducted by these institutions, ”the statement said.
They also request the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union to bring forward the arrival of their observers for the elections to be held in the country on February 28.
MPs are sending a condolence register to the families of Gloria Rogel and Juan de Dios Tejada, militants and veterans of the FMLN who lost their lives in the attack on Sunday.
They added that the powers and duties of the president of the republic are to maintain sovereignty unscathed, seek social harmony, and preserve peace and tranquility and the safety of people as members of the society.
The statement will be submitted to the Blue Chamber for approval in plenary on Wednesday.
The reactions
The delegates of various factions condemned and deplored the attack on the left-wing caravan.
“The brutal and brutal attack on members of the FMLN party is regrettable, reprehensible and reprehensible in every way. And that they won’t come out to say ‘the ARENA-FMLN marriage defends each other’, here there are human lives, there is bloodshed that cannot be tolerated and cannot be allowed, ”said ARENA delegate Emilio Corea.
The FMLN sympathizers were transported in this truck after the rally was over. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
He noted that it is well known that the attackers were transported in a blue vehicle, from where they chased the FMLN militants several blocks, according to testimony from a witness, until they were shot. Besides the fact that there are already detainees related to the security of the Secretary of Health, Francisco Alabí, and a third party who is private security.
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“It’s not worth it to want privacy, but beware, it says confidential information that the New Ideas party deputies candidate list includes people of dubious origins. I call on the prosecutor Raúl Melara to deploy his good offices and investigate what happened, there is a video surveillance system, there are number plates for cars, and the least the health minister should do is distance himself from the event or confirm that members of his private security were the ones who took part, ”the legislator said.
He added that because of the inauguration he has, President Nayib Bukele respects him, but asks him for enough conflict, polarization, sowing and inculcating hatred.
While Schafik Hándal, of the FMLN, said that this country has already traveled that path and was already overcome, “they sow wind, they will reap storms.”
FMLN Deputy Yanci Urbina condemned the attack on her party’s militancy by armed individuals as a clear act of violence.
“This aggression, this brutal armed attack that we forcibly rejected, has resulted in two deaths. I must say that we strongly reject the violence, the hatred promoted by the ruling party towards the political parties. What we have seen is clearly an expression of that order and we also reject the irresponsible statements of the president of the republic, who apparently has no human attention with regard to the individuals and families affected, ”said the MP.
Congressman Norman Quijano, of ARENA, said his party is calling for the facts to be clarified as soon as possible and for the full weight of the law to be applied to the perpetrators, regardless of where the attack comes from.
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ARENA Deputy Mauricio Vargas, for his part, said that democracy is deteriorating sharply and that political democracy is haunted by hatred, by violence, by the inflammatory and poisonous language used in the presidential house communications manual, fueling greater confrontation. .
“This is not new, we’ve been saying it for days, but it’s not really possible for the government to understand that polarization and confrontation can lead us to a sad recent past that would be very dangerous to return,” said the deputy. .
He believed that the message of confrontation, hatred, disqualification and marginalization of the government against the adversary is what the country has in these circumstances.
“ I am sorry that the president has given an answer that seems to me as if we are reaching social dissolution and to put it very clearly, the political parties are working within the framework of the law, but the president is playing outside the law and only injecting the confrontation, ”said Vargas.
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