El Salvador: Decisions undermining independence of justice institutions should be revisited
Transparency International condemns actions to consolidate power by the executive government in El Salvador. We call on President Nayib Bukele and the Legislative Assembly to follow the due process for revisiting the decisions that amount to the breach of the constitutional and democratic order. Over the weekend, in an unprecedented blow to the independence of key accountability institutions, El Salvador’s newly elected Legislative Assembly voted to remove and replace all five judges of the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber. The decision has been slammed as unconstitutional
