The constitutional amendment also extends the presidential terms from five years to six and the runoff of waste elections.
The ruling party of El Salvador has approved a bill to review how the elections in the Central American nation are executed, opening President Nayib Bukele to fulfill another mandate.
On Thursday, 57 members of the Congress voted in favor and three voted against a constitutional amendment that will allow indefinite presidential re -election, extend the terms from five years to six and discard the election elections.
Bukele won a second term last year despite a clear prohibition in the country’s constitution. The Superior Court of El Salvador, full of judges backed by Bukele, ruled in 2021 that it was the human right of the leader to work again.
After his re -election last year, Bukele told hey journalists “he did not believe that constitutional reform was necessary,” but he evaded questions about whether he would try to run for a third mandate.
With the constitutional reforms of Thursday, Bukele, who enjoys Huggeusous support in his Heiss Handed Handed campaign against criminal gangs, may work again.
The review will also shorten the president’s current mandate to synchronize the elections in 2027, since the presidential, legislative and municipal elections are currently staggered.
“Thank you for making history, fellow deputies,” said Ernesto Castro, president of the Legislative Assembly of the New Ideas Festival, after counting the votes on Thursday.
‘Democracy has dead’
Speaking of duration of the parliamentary session, the opposition legislator, Marcela Villatoro, of the Republican National Alliance (Arena) criticized the proposal that is taken to Parliament when the country begins a week of summer vacation and said in Elvad. “
The opposition policy Claudia Ortiz of the Vamos party criticized the reform as “an abuse of power and a cartoon of democracy.”
Constitutional reform has also generated strong criticism of international rights groups.
“The reforms lead to a total imbalance in democracy that no longer exists,” said Miguel Montenegro, director of the NGO, the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, to the AFP news agency.
“The day before the holidays, without debate, without informing the public, in a single legislative vote, they changed the political system to allow the president to perpetuate himself in power indefinitely, and we continue to follow the very busy patteria of autocrats,” Cristosal told the Reuters news agency.
The group recently left El Salvador, declaring ITELF in exile due to Bukele’s impulse to consolidate his control over power and take energetic measures against critics and humanitarian organizations.
