The Legislative Assembly has voted

Around 1 AM this morning the Legislative Assembly ended their session. There were plans to approve a new decree for the current pandemic after many Human Rights abuses have been reported at national and international level.

 

 

 

 

Nayib Bukele had stated his plans to veto this measure..

 

 

The State of Emergency decree expired last night. If Bukele had vetoed such project, there would not have been an applicable law today. Such is the reason congresspeople are giving today after they only decided to extend the applicability of the original decree.

This is different than the State of Exception decree which expired on April 13th.

 

 

According to the Legislative Assembly’s website another law was passed in order to protect Human Rights during the pandemic.

DEC-631 -Prorroga

 

On the other hand, people that have been under quarantine for over 37 days have stated their decision to go on hunger strike until they are discharged (1) (2).

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