# Bukele enters the Legislative Assembly with soldiers to press a security-loan vote Date: 2020 ## The fact On 9 February 2020 President [Nayib Bukele](/people/nayib-bukele) entered El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly with armed soldiers and police to press a vote on a security loan. Deputies did not vote that sitting as he demanded. ## Context The Assembly sat in opposition hands. Neighbouring 2021 supermajority is later. He did not write a unique later homicide coefficient from that Sunday. 1 June 2019 oath is the parent. Night of the judges 1 May 2021 is later. 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 Presidency of El Salvador carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed military presence inside the legislature is a dated check-and-balance shock. ## What is established and what is not Established: 9 February 2020 soldiers and police inside the Assembly, independently reported. Not established: that the loan was thereby enacted that hour, or a unique later homicide coefficient from the chamber floor. 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. The armed forces entered. Deputies left or sat under that weather.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Bukele enters the Legislative Assembly with soldiers to press a security-loan vote, not a later speech about Bukele enters the Legislative Assembly with soldiers to press a security-loan vote. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Bukele enters the Legislative Assembly with soldiers to press a security-loan vote on 2020-02-09 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency 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 Bukele enters the Legislative Assembly with soldiers to press a security-loan vote into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ordered the presence and sat in the president’s chair of the Assembly. The armed forces entered. Deputies left or sat under that weather. 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 - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-elsalvador-politics-idUSKBN2030N1 - https://www.presidencia.gob.sv/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sv-soldiers-2020