The former Constitutional Chamber magistrate said President Nayib Bukele cannot refuse to abide by the Legislative Assembly’s binding order.
“If the legislature saw that there were serious human rights violations by a public security officer and recommends binding resignation, the president cannot refuse to comply,” said the former magistrate of the constitutional chamber, Rodolfo González, after approving the congressional final report on the director of the PNC, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, whose human rights it declares has been violated by being complicit in the takeover of the Legislative Assembly that Nayib Bukele carried out on Feb. 9.
The former magistrate confirms that Bukele can go to the Chamber if he disagrees with the resolution, “but if he does what the government always does to say the Assembly’s interpretation is wrong, someone who is no longer a director would be left. is “. .
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On the other hand, he said that if Arriaza Chicas remains director of the PNC, despite the binding dismissal order, “this would be an appropriation of functions.”
Daniel Olmedo, a constitutional attorney, confirmed what the former magistrate said, adding that, based on the evidence gathered, Congress “ concluded that with the collaboration of the now former PNC director in the 9F coup d’état, the representative democracy was violated and Salvadorans’ right to vote was violated, a human right recognized in the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ”.
Olmedo added that Nayib Bukele “is not the constitutional court that will determine whether this decision is constitutional or not, that’s what the Constitutional Chamber is for.”
In turn, a conglomerate of seven civil society organizations spoke out on Thursday demanding that the coup attempt at the 9F Legislative Assembly should not go unpunished.
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“The Legislative Assembly decision (to order the resignation of Arriaza Chicas) is part of a series of actions to pull off responsibilities for the coup attempt,” said Acción Ciudadana, ANEP, the Center for Legal Studies, DTJ , Funde, Fusades and the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law. They also asked the Public Prosecution Service to investigate whether sedition or other crimes had been committed.
