The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukeleironized this Monday about the Sao Paulo Forum’s condemnation of El Salvador for “the dismantling of democratic spaces”, “transition from a democratic model to that of a hegemonic party” and for “human rights violations”.

“The São Paulo Forum has just condemned El Salvador for ‘the dismantling of democratic spaces’, “change from a democratic model to that of a hegemonic party” and with ‘human rights violations’. Yes, the Forum of São Paulo”, Bukele published on his Twitter account.

The Sao Paulo Forum Summit, held from June 29 to July 2, 2023 in Brasilia (Brazil), showed its “solidarity” with the Salvadoran opposition party Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) and with “the struggle of the Salvadoran people in the face of the grave economic, social and political crisis.”

The forum, a grouping of left-wing political parties and groups in America, has rejected the introduction of a state of emergency in the country, which has lasted a year and a half and has left more than 66,000 people trapped. times (in an) arbitrary manner”, and has denounced the deaths of more than 140 people in police custody and has estimated “fundamental rights” violations at more than 5,000”, details. PS.

In addition, he has described the announcement of Bukele’s candidacy in the country’s presidential election as “fraudulent” and “unconstitutional”. after this Sunday, the Salvadoran governing party Nuevas Ideas formalized its candidacy, despite the constitutional ban on immediate re-election.

The organization also expressed concern about the “dismantling of political and democratic spaces” and that it is ending the 1992 peace accords, and has assured that Bukele is changing the country’s democratic model to one of a “hegemonic party”.

The forum has thus rejected the policy that “They are trying to consolidate the collapse of the impartiality of the political and electoral system”, the “militarization of Salvadoran territory” and “political persecution”, and has asked the international community to demand compliance with human rights in the country.