Democratic Change Candidate for San Miguel Mayor declares support for Miguel Pereira | News from El Salvador
For his part, the Congress party said on social media that “this supposed support” for its candidate on Pereira “does not respond to an institutional line and does not respond to the national line of the Congress party.”
Giovanni Flores, Campio Democratic (CD) mayor candidate for San Miguel, on Sunday expressed his support for Miguel Pereira, the candidate of the FNLF.
The decision was announced this morning during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Conference on Disarmament in San Miguel, attended by Pereira.
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This fact comes, on Saturday, after a group of people who identified themselves as the leaders of the New Ideas Party (NI) expressed their support for the re-election of Pereira mayor.
Starting today, Giovanni Flores asked his supporters to support Miguel Pereira, “because it is a proposal that fits San Miguel.”
This is a joint decision with the city council to support Pereira’s candidacy, Flores said. “It is to ensure the development that our mayor Miguel Pereira is carrying out for this city,” he added.
The Congress party split from supporting the Pereira candidate
Despite the announcement, the Congress party said on social media that “this supposed support” for its candidate on Pereira “does not respond to an institutional line and does not respond to the national line of the Congress party.” They reaffirmed their support for the “project headed by” President Neb Bokel.
As a party, the Twitter CD itself removed this endorsement of Candidate Flores, interpreting it as “the manipulation of a candidate on his own account using the party colors, so we will investigate if there is no purchase of wills to give the appearance of support that does not exist!”
For his part, Mayor Pereira explained that it is a “wise decision” by the CD candidate, because they have many points in common, such as accountability from the municipality.
Pereira added that it was the same way he received yesterday Support for militancy Nueva ideas in the municipality of San Miguel He receives it today with the members of the Conference on Disarmament.
Pereira confirmed that he had information that they wanted to boycott his candidacy
During the press conference at the headquarters of the CD, Miguel Pereira emphasized that the only way in which Lowell Salgado could return to the mayor’s office is in two ways.
The first is that they remove it from the stage anyway, “Be careful because I have information about it, and secondly they are stealing my election, and I know some of the things they are doing, I ask for meetings with international organizations to do that were known at the time” added the mayor.