Nayib Bukele announces creation of CICIES in El Salvador

"I don't want to scare you, but tomorrow we launch the CICIES (International Commission Against Impunity), "he said briefly Bukele in your Twitter account.

The president did not give more details on how it will be done or what that commission will imply, for which he has requested the support of the Organization of American States (OAS) and of the United Nations (UN).

Bukele has not mentioned how or who will make up the CICIES, which was one of the main promises of government he made when he was a candidate for the presidency.

I don't want to scare you, but tomorrow we launch the CICIES …#YThisBackstart

– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) September 6, 2019

The Salvadoran vice president, Félix Ulloa, wrote on his Twitter account that "the corrupt and corrupt will have to report to the people. The CICIES arrived."

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The president has mentioned on other occasions that the international commission will be in charge of investigating cases of corruption that have been committed during previous governments.

Presidents of El Salvador accused of corruption

When Bukele won the presidential elections last February and after taking office in June, he ended three decades of bipartisanship that was dominated by the rightist Alanza Republican Nationalist (ARENA) and the left of Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN)

Important members of the FMLN have been opposed to the operation of an international commission against corruption, arguing that the investigations carried out by the Prosecutor's Office are sufficient.

In recent years, the Salvadoran Prosecutor's Office prosecuted the former president Francisco Flores (1999-2004) for the diversion of 10 million dollars donated by Taiwan, and last September he was sentenced to 10 years in prison of the former president Elías Antonio Saca (2004-2009) for the diversion of 301 million dollars of public funds.

Former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014), accused of several corruption offenses, including the alleged diversion of $ 351 million during his term, fled to Nicaragua in 2016 and recently obtained Nicaraguan citizenship, which prevents his extradition to El Salvador .