Hundreds heed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's call to converge on parliament Sunday after lawmakers refused to gather to vote on security funding, increasing tensions between the leader and the opposition-controlled legislature.
Hundreds of supporters of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele heeded his call to converge on the country’s parliament Sunday after lawmakers refused to gather to vote on a $109-million loan to better equip the country’s security forces, sharply increasing tensions between the leader and the opposition-controlled legislature.
“If we wanted to press the button, we would press the button” and remove lawmakers from the legislature, he told supporters outside the building. “But I asked God and God told me: patience, patience, patience. On February 28 [2021] all these scoundrels are heading out the door outside.”Opposition legislators say they want more details on the spending plan before being called to a vote.
Addressing his supporters, Bukele said polls suggest his New Ideas party would win a majority in the new legislature in 2021’s voting, so there is no need for them to break into it by force now. In response, Bukele invoked Article 87 of the charter that recognizes the people’s right to insurrection, “for the sole purpose of restoring the constitutional order,” and summoned his supporters to the legislature.
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