# The new Assembly replaces the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney-general in one night

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 1 May 2021, the first sitting of a Nuevas Ideas supermajority Assembly dismissed the five Constitutional Chamber justices and the attorney-general and named replacements the same night. [Bukele](/people/nayib-bukele) had publicly pressed it.

## Context

The 28 February legislative election sat as parent. Neighbouring re-election ruling is later 2021. He did not sit as every deputy.

Assembly election February 2021 is the parent. Re-election ruling September 2021 is a child.

The President of El Salvador heads the executive, commands the armed forces, and can request a state of exception that the Legislative Assembly must approve and extend. He does not write a Constitutional Chamber judgment by himself, an IMF board decision, or a [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designation. The Assembly, PNC, Fiscalía, and prison service share specific files. A homicide print is not a unique due-process coefficient. Gang membership is not proven by detention alone.

## Evidence and sources

Legislative Assembly of El Salvador carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed same-night replacement of the constitutional court and prosecutor is a dated check-and-balance collapse.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1 May 2021 dismissals and same-night replacements, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He had demanded the change and owned the supermajority. The new Chamber later sat on re-election.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The new Assembly replaces the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney-general in one night, not a later speech about The new Assembly replaces the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney-general in one night.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The new Assembly replaces the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney-general in one night on 2021-05-01 is not a licence to treat every later Legislative Assembly of El Salvador communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The new Assembly replaces the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney-general in one night into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Assembly voted. He had demanded the change and owned the supermajority. The new Chamber later sat on re-election. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nayib Bukele: https://factrail.ai/people/nayib-bukele

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-assembly-ousts-top-judges-prosecutor-2021-05-02/
- https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sv-judges-2021