The deputies of the Political Commission, presided by Ernesto Castro, head of the legislature, approved the day before to ratify the reform agreement to repeal article 210 of the Constitution of the Republic and eliminate the political debt, mechanism established for the parties’ financing.

When the forum votes this Wednesday, the political parties will only be able to receive private financing, which in the opinion of critics opens the campaigns in the country to the eruption of funds of dubious origin, even from drug trafficking.

The initiative approved and proposed by the Nuevas Ideas party establishes that, ‘for the benefit of Salvadorans, political parties must finance their platforms and electoral offers in each event they participate’.

This Tuesday, after reading the draft decree, congresswoman Alexia Rivas, from New Ideas (NI), intervened to emphasize that they are complying with a procedure and that her party is the one that has had the privilege of eliminating the political debt.

Political media pointed out that the Cian awning, color that identifies NI, never revealed the financing of its campaigns.

While Castro pointed out that the favorable opinion will be presented to the 60 deputies in the plenary today and, if there is an agreement, it will be published in the Official Gazette.

If the plenary agrees to ratify the repeal of Article 210 of the Constitution, which is to eliminate the political debt, it will be published in the Official Gazette and eight days later, eight days after today, it will be a fact, said Castro.

He stressed that with this elimination ‘the political parties will no longer be maintained from Salvadorans’ pockets, that is going to end and already making history, doing what they never dared to do’.

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