The process being followed in court against Norman Quijano, delivered the previous Monday by the United States, demonstrates that the ARENA party acted outside the legal frameworks, considered David Hernández, analyst and master in Political Science.
Hernández explained to “Diario El Salvador” that Quijano’s recent deportation “implies a double legal effect,” both in his personal actions and for following his party’s guidelines.
“This is the capture of a fugitive from Salvadoran justice for criminal acts for which he was disqualified, investigated and sentenced to more than 13 years,” he said.
He added that Quijano’s March 2014 meeting with gang members was outside the law, and that his participation is “duly demonstrated in negotiations with gang terrorist groups to undermine the country’s constitutional order, through the illicit payment of large sums of money, as well as promises of gang participation in a future government chaired by ARENA and Norman Quijano.”
Hernández stated that it is evident that the former tricolor presidential candidate “acted, like the late former mayor of Ilopango Salvador Ruano and the former mayor of San Salvador Ernesto Muyshondt, following instructions from Coena [Consejo Ejecutivo Nacional] of SAND.
He reiterated that this “demonstrates action outside all the legal frameworks of the republic. And it opens the possibility of cancellation as a political party by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
Arturo Grandon, intelligence, security and terrorism analyst, maintains that the degree of power that someone has held in the past does not matter, and that if they transgressed the law they must pay.
“You can be president of the republic, deputies, mayors, businessmen, judges, prosecutors, but if they transgressed the law and are against what is established in Salvadoran legislation, in the Constitution, they will be persecuted, imprisoned and they will pay in accordance with what the law says,” he said in the Channel 10 interview.
Grandon added that these circumstances fit what is happening with the former ARENA deputy, therefore, “people should not be surprised that Norman Quijano always carried out a rather evil plan to stay in power, and citizens should be clear about that, which will no longer be accepted.”
Quijano was convicted as an absentee in April 2024 by the Second Criminal Chamber of San Salvador, which imposed a sentence of 13 years and four months in prison for the crimes of illicit groups and procedural fraud.
Orlando Rivas, prosecutor against corruption, explained on that occasion that the magistrates validated all the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office during the trial.
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