This Friday in the Encuentro interview with Julio Villagrán, the economist, Julia Evelyn Martinez, and the political analyst, Ronal Umaña, debated what is happening with the mayors who have increased their salaries excessively. However, they considered that this is a political strategy to distract the population about the constitutional reform, which can open the control of all political powers.
““With this issue of increasing the salary of some mayors, it will end up in people forgetting and distracting from what is happening with the political system in El Salvador, which is marching in leaps and bounds towards a fascist dictatorship.” Martinez and Umaña mentioned.
Umaña highlighted that not only the mayors have increased salaries, but also the deputies increased up to 1 million dollars in salaries, in addition, they have increased advisors from 14 to 16 thousand dollars.
“It is curious that the deputy @ChrisGuevaraG criticizes the increase in salaries of the mayors when the deputies did not lower the salary that they had offered in the previous campaign, they also increased 1 million dollars in salaries. Umaña indicated.
Given this, they considered that in El Salvador there is only the executive branch, which presents the laws and the legislature only approves what comes to them under exemption from processing, and that they do not even go to the commissions.
“What the intervention of Mrs. @suecalleja shows is that they, as deputies of the Legislative Assembly, are simple paper passers-by and she herself has said it, they neither reached the committees nor were there opinions presented by the plenary… They do not take into account deputies from “the opposition that presents initiatives and with the new legislature is going to continue the same or it is going to be worse” signal Julia Evelyn Martinez.
Finally, they highlighted that the country as a republic is ceasing to exist, since in practice a dictatorship is installed, the constitution being the only thing that is republic and that is why they want to reform it, possibly to the point of making a new constitution.