at the start of his second term in office
The measure has been in effect uninterrupted since March 2022, when the Salvadoran president promised to eliminate the gangs.
HAVANA TIMES – The Congress of El Salvador, dominated by the ruling party Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas), approved on Thursday, June 6, the twenty-seventh extension of the state of emergency, the first during Nayib Bukele’s second term, to which he was inaugurated last Saturday.
With 57 votes from the 60 deputies, Nuevas Ideas and its allies automatically extended the measure, without prior debate. It suspends several constitutional rights and under which authorities make arrests without warrants.
This new extension comes despite Bukele’s inaugural speech claim that he has cured the “cancer” of gangs, and that El Salvador is the “safest”