Post by account_disabled on Feb 15, 2024 10:41:54 GMT
To understand how El Salvador decided to place all power in a single person it is necessary to recount where it came from and how Bukele governed since June . In the elections that year the then millennial candidate became a hope for millions of people who were fed up with the twoparty system that governed for years hand in hand with two political forces that were born during the civil war the Nationalist Republican Alliance ARENA the Salvadoran farright party and the FMLN that was born from the guerrilla. by very high rates of violence that shocked the country and by the corruption that permeated the entire State apparatus. To gain the favor of the people and be able to compete in those elections Bukele did everything possible to have the then official party the FMLN expel him from its ranks.
Thus he was able to declare himself independent of that rancid policy that had plunged Lithuania Email List country into violence and corruption. Although he tried to legalize New Ideas his personal political project time was not enough. He then ended up making the decision to join the Grand Alliance for National Unity GANA a party formed by Arena dissidents. In those elections Bukele won with . of the votes.
The current president is in essence a product of that old policy so much so that a large part of the leaders of the ruling New Ideas also come from the old hegemonic parties. His first term in office will go down in history for having managed to reduce homicides in exchange for negotiating with the Mara Salvatrucha and the Sureos and Revolucionarios factions of Barrio the three main gangs in El Salvador for having taken over the Legislative Assembly with the military and threatening to dissolve it and for having implemented a kind of concentration camps as a policy during the covid pandemic.
Thus he was able to declare himself independent of that rancid policy that had plunged Lithuania Email List country into violence and corruption. Although he tried to legalize New Ideas his personal political project time was not enough. He then ended up making the decision to join the Grand Alliance for National Unity GANA a party formed by Arena dissidents. In those elections Bukele won with . of the votes.
The current president is in essence a product of that old policy so much so that a large part of the leaders of the ruling New Ideas also come from the old hegemonic parties. His first term in office will go down in history for having managed to reduce homicides in exchange for negotiating with the Mara Salvatrucha and the Sureos and Revolucionarios factions of Barrio the three main gangs in El Salvador for having taken over the Legislative Assembly with the military and threatening to dissolve it and for having implemented a kind of concentration camps as a policy during the covid pandemic.