El Salvador opposition reverses proposal to oust president

[Judi Lynn]

One day after El Salvador’s main opposition parties indicated their willingness to start a process that could oust President Nayib Bukele two weeks before national elections, they have quickly reversed course
Via AP news wire
6 hours ago



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One day after El Salvador’s main opposition parties indicated their willingness to start a process that could oust President Nayib Bukele two weeks before national elections, they quickly reversed course and said they are not really considering invoking the constitutional provision.

The president of El Salvador’s unicameral Legislative Assembly, Mario Ponce of the conservative National Coalition Party, cast the initiative presented Tuesday as an “act of propaganda.”

Ponce said he didn’t think it had a future and was only an attempt to garner media attention.

On Tuesday, Ricardo Velásquez Parker, a deputy with the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), asked the Legislative Assembly to start the process of removing Bukele for allegedly being mentally unfit to continue in the presidency. He cited Bukele’s attacks on the congress and accused him of sowing division in the country.

But on Wednesday, Carlos Reyes, leader of Arena’s members in the assembly, said that “at this moment the removal of the president is not planned, that must be clear to the Salvadoran people.”

“That is the individual proposal of a deputy,” Reyes said. “Right now what the country needs is stability. We all need to work together.”

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