Aircraft Maintenance Technician reported discrepancies found during aircraft maintenance. Management deferred maintenance and returned aircraft to service.

Narrative

I was troubleshooting an MEL on Aircraft X for LE flaps transit light; which throughout the night; I was finding more and more issues that could have been related to the issue; which was documented on the MEL fault. Relayed this info to My Lead and we discussed taking the plane out of service. Management was harassing us about talking to Maintenance Control about pulling it out of service- which Maintenance Control was going to do at this time. We explained to management that we thought it was a flight safety issue however they went behind our back and talked to Maintenance Control themselves; which resulted in carrying forward the MEL and canceling it from the package. In which they convinced them to allow the plane to fly. Afterwards; management said it was OK with Maintenance Control to finish up the work package and so we airworthiness release the plane. We asked management to make sure that the plane fly to a base with a field tech so that it could be looked at more thoroughly.Everything found is documented in the MEL work-package that was found. Next time each individual issue that i find will be put into a separate write up so that stuff like this will not happen in future. I should be able to choose whether or not a plane is airworthy and not management.