translated from Spanish: El Salvador Congress dismisses CSJ judges

El Salvador.- The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador ceased the owner and alternate judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) for allegedly committing “fraud to the Constitution” and violently violently separating powers. The initiative was driven by Nayib Bukele’s first vice president and former government minister of culture, Sucey Callejas, with process dispensation.
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With 64 votes in favour of the 84 deputies, all of the officialism, the dismissal of the jurists was approved, leaving the CSJ incomplete and without president to the judicial body. The parties that supported the initiative were New Ideas (NI), Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and National Concertation Party (PCN). Read more: Rescue two minors who fell into a well in Toledo, SpainThe Callejas-driven project denounces that the magistrates committed “fraud to the Constitution”, in addition, to carry out the functions corresponding to the government of Bukele by the resolutions related to the management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this regard, the document states that these officials “had arrogant meddling”, as well as “abusive interference” in such judgments during the health contingency of SARS-CoV-2.Once upon a time Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, pointed out to the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice to remove the power to handle the health emergency. It should be remembered that on 9 August 2020, the Salvadoran representative had mentioned in a national media network that, “if he were indeed a dictator”, he had “shot” the members of the Constitutional Chamber of the CSJ for having declared the decrees issued during the confinement by the pandemic unconstitutional. Read more: Tilda North Korea as false to US diplomacy USA; accuses that it is used for “hostile acts”The ceased magistrates are the president of the Constitutional Chamber and the SCJ, José Armando Pineda; and the owner magistrates Carlos Sergio Avilés, Mariana de Jesús Marenco, Aldo Enrique Cáder and Carlos Ernesto Sánchez.Together the alternates Sonia Elizabeth Cortez de Madriz, José Cristóbal Reyes, Rogel Zepeda, José Luis Lobo Castelar and José Alfonso Quinteros.

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