The Presidency says that it is “unconstitutional” because of the requirements that the Assembly demands to demonstrate in El Salvador “its very restrictive”.
President Nayib Bukele spoke that the decree that the Assembly approves in order for the salvadoran residents to participate externally as candidates in popular elections are “unconstitutional” in terms of the established criteria for demonstrating their location in the locality to which they represent in the comics.
“These criteria result exclusively in the salvadoran residences in the exterior that can not be found by any of them, when in reality none of these criteria are related to the substantive aspects of decree ownership,” said Bukele.
In the legislative decree the various parliamentarians colocaron requisites for salvadoranos living in the exterior that postulate deseen public charges like alcaldes, deputados the President of the Republic.
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Además de todos los que el Tribunal Supremo Electoral pide a los interestedes, para conconcionales que viven fuera del pais, se agrega demostrar “que su padre, madre, conyuge o hijos menores de edad residen en el municipio y son dependientes del postulante, anexando copy of the Unique Documents of Identity of any of the first three, or copy of the certificates of birth certificates of any of his heirs ”.
It is also required that he demonstrate that he possesses property in this municipality, in addition to a certificate issued by the National Register of Registers or a photocopy of the certificate of the respective public deed of writing, the solvency payment of taxes and municipal taxes in the property registered. who solicited the registration of his candidacy, among other requisites.
Previously, the Assembly was required to comply with a resolution of the Constitutional Chamber that mandates the legislature to allow salvadorans who reside in the External Party to participate in elections.
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On December 23, 2016, the Constitutional Court ruled that the vote of the compatriots living in the exterior and participating as candidates in the electoral process, by virtue of which it was necessary to make the changes to the normative power to possess the ownership of passive right to sufragio.
Bukele mentions that the sentence of the Sala refers to the explicit theme that is established that the requisites for the con- scribes to register as candidates should be “reasonable habituation of their particular circumcision that the coloca in a different plan with the salvadoreños residents in the country , pero, por otro lado, que no restrinjan de forma indebida el eiercicio de dicho derecho ”.
ARENA’s deputy, Mauricio Ernesto Vargas, explained that the governor “does not have the interest of the district, in a unique and unreasonable manner, that it is electoral, they can move from affidavit to other specific municipalities that can charge even more than one vote ”.
With respect, in the veto, the Presidency argues that “there are groups of salvadoran residents in the exterior that do not comply with these criteria, because they emigrate with all their familiar group, or nation in foreign territory”.
While, according to the executive director of Acción Ciudadana, Eduardo Escobar, President Bukele did not have a veto on “unconstitutional”. Escobar analyzes that there is a difference of opinion between the Executive and the Assembly that debates in a veto by “inconvenience”.
“It is our duty to deliver to him that the Chamber of Deputies to the President (Bukele) has no arbitrary and irresponsible use of the unconstitutional veto. to enter into vigilance ”, affirms Escobar.
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Without embarrassment, he shares Bukele’s allegations in the form of the “restrictive” form of some criteria that the Assembly demands for women to post as candidates in popular elections.
“As the Presidency has reason, the legislature has been very restrictive in the form of approving the arrangement, in cases where applications for extraterrestrial applications have been made, as the form of the arrangement has been resided in order to determine circulation and probation, or haber tenido la ultima residencia en esa circunscripción, ya sea nacimiento o haber resido, es otra forma de probar el arraigo, hay cierta razon en el Ejecutivo de senalar que son muy restrictivas estas formas ”, apuntó Escobar.
However, he advised that “this is not the reason for planting the unconstitutional veto”.
Bukele argues that there are also vices of inequality in the legislative decree affecting the economic capacity of the interested party to run to demonstrate that it has properties in the circulation that it aspires to represent.
Alhoewel, Escobar signaled that no need to treat large properties or furniture.
“If the arrangement is tried by means of a property or society that is not above the right to the economic capacity as equivocadamentally the President has, because he could have a house of small value and with it I would buy a house, finally a house humiliate and all live a time, not a theme of economic capacity ”, Escobar said.