The Minister of the Interior, Juan Carlos Bidegain, presented to the Legislative Assembly the bill proposed by President Nayib Bukele, on reducing the number of deputies for the Legislative Body.
Given this, President Nayib Bukele assured that: “No more deputies for waste.”
During his Address to the Nation on the night of Thursday, June 1, Bukele announced that he would reduce the number of deputies in the Legislative Assembly. In order to maintain a qualified majority for his political party, Nuevas Ideas, the president plans to reduce the number of parliamentarians from the current 84 to 60.
The Legislative Assembly immediately approved, with exemption from paperwork, the reform to the Electoral Code requested by the government to eliminate the waste system in the distribution of legislative seats in the Legislative Assembly, further reducing them from 84 to 60.
The paperwork waiver was approved with 62 votes from Nuevas Ideas and its allies. Nuestro Tiempo and Vamos voted against.
“We leave behind the residual system that violates the constitutional principle of equal voting, we will apply the quotient system, which is used in most countries in the world. All votes are worth the same,” the Interior Minister told reporters after handing over the projects.
The president of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, responded, at the end of a press conference, that they are going “to take action right now.”
The head of the Nuevas Ideas fraction, Christian Guevara, asked to approve the reform to the Electoral Code with a waiver of paperwork and to pass the municipal reduction law to the respective commission.