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/Institutional crisis caused by Bukele reflects the atrophy of democracy in El Salvador – 05/06/2021 – Worldwide
Institutional crisis caused by Bukele reflects the atrophy of democracy in El Salvador – 05/06/2021 – Worldwide
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Last Monday (3), the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, met with foreign ambassadors to try to explain what is happening in the country. Two days earlier, at the opening of the new Congress, now controlled by the Salvadoran leader, five judges who make up the Constitutional Court and the Attorney General were dismissed by a constitutional provision.
Although provided for in the country’s Charter, the sudden move once again left suspicion that Bukele was seeking authoritarian management with a veneer of legality – magistrates were opposed to the president’s policies. The exonerated judges were opposed, for example, to measures that appeared to be aimed at controlling Covid-19, but which, in fact, aimed at political