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(CNN Spanish) - Victims of the armed conflict in El Salvador (1980-1992), family members and organizations that promote human rights reject the Special Law on Transitional Justice, Reparation and National Reconciliation approved on Wednesday by the Legislative Assembly.
To express their disagreement, they blocked one of the accesses to the legislative headquarters on Thursday afternoon. The protesters carried posters with photographs of their relatives killed during the civil war and others with messages against the deputies who endorsed the decree.
The law passed with 44 of 84 possible votes will replace the amnesty law, passed in 1993 but declared unconstitutional in July 2016 by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which ordered deputies to legislate taking into account parameters such as : justice, truth, reparation and non-repetition.
President Nayib Bukele announced on Wednesday that he will veto the decree approved by the Assembly because in his opinion he does not fulfill the mandate of the magistrates.
If that happens, the president of the Salvadoran Congress, Mario Ponce assured journalists that he will request the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice.
"Let it be the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber who say if what we have approved the deputies is Constitutional or not," said Ponce in an impromptu press conference Wednesday night outside the blue hall of the Assembly.
