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The Savior is this Saturday amid political tension after the call of President Nayib Bukele to the deputies to hold an extraordinary session on Sunday to approve a loan of 109 million dollars to finance the third part of a security plan against gangs.
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The different parliamentary groups in Congress have held separate meetings on Saturday morning, the president of the Legislative body told reporters, Mario Ponce, who also noted that the National Civil Police (PNC) withdrew the agents designated to provide security to each of the deputies.
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“Given this situation (removal of agents) it is my obligation, as president of this body, to protect the deputies, especially those who were signatories of the Peace Accords, such as Deputy Nidia Díaz (of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ) ”, Said the parliamentarian of the National Concertation Party (PCN, center right).
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Ponce did not rule out or assure if an extraordinary session will be convened on Saturday afternoon to discuss and approve the loan that was granted by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), which is the point of disagreement between the Executive and Legislative .
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President Bukele summoned citizens on Friday to appear on Sunday at 03.00 local time (21.00 GMT) at the Legislative Assembly headquarters to pressure and demand the approval of said loan, which has not been endorsed because members of the Finance Commission, who study this loan, say that the Executive has not explained in detail how the money will be executed.
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In one of the entrances to the Legislative body, a platform has begun to be assembled and has been deployed to a group of soldiers, as Efe found.
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The president of the Salvadoran Congress called on Saturday to talk “to solve the problems of El Salvador.”
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“Dialogue is everyone’s bet. We are going to privilege the dialogue to solve the problems of El Salvador, however serious they may be, and the dialogue is the tool to find the solution to the country’s serious problems.“, said.
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For his part, the secretary general of the opponent Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN), Oscar Ortiz, sued Bukele “to stop his threats, typical of a dictatorship” and said that “the political costs of his actions could be high for the country, but also for him.”
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“We categorically condemn the highly dangerous actions for the country, undertaken by the President of the Republic“, he pointed.
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Ortiz called the international community “to be vigilant about this situation irresponsibly promoted by the president.”
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The opposition party Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) called on Saturday for the intervention of the Organization of American States (OAS) to resolve the political tension that exists at this time between the Legislative and Executive bodies.
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Deputy Carlos Reyes read a statement to journalists in which he pointed out that his legislative section asks the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, to, in accordance with his powers, “immediately activate the preventive mechanisms established in the Inter-American Democratic Charter to avoid compliance with the constitutional order in El Salvador and acted to immediately defend the process of self-coup currently in progress. “
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He added that the political institute does study the approval of the CABEI loan.
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Bukele said Friday that if the deputies do not attend the extraordinary session, the constitutional order will be broken.
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“The constitutional order has not yet been broken. The call is in force and the plenary must be held on Sunday (…) if the deputies do not attend, they would be breaking the constitutional order and the people will have the power to apply article 87 of the Constitution, ”Bukele posted on his Twitter account.
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This article “recognizes the right of the people to the insurrection, for the sole purpose of restoring the constitutional order by altering by the transgression of the norms related to the form of government or the political system established, or by serious violations of the rights enshrined in the Constitution”.
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