A few days ago, the Legislative Assembly, wholly controlled by the Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele, swiftly approved constitutional reforms that allow him to remain in power indefinitely: they approved indefinite reelection for the office of president, just as Chávez...
In this case, the story is about a popular president who consolidates power and is enabled by a constitutional change to run for office as many times as he wishes, in the name of popular sovereignty. The reform in El Salvador was fast-tracked on Thursday in the...
The José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA) expresses its profound concern regarding the constitutional reforms approved by the Legislative Assembly, which authorize indefinite presidential re-election, extend the presidential term from five to six years,...
The former heads of state and government who comprise the Iniciativa Democrática de España y las Américas (Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas, or IDEA Group) have condemned the recent constitutional reforms ratified by El Salvador’s Legislative...
Lawmaker Ana Figueroa of the Nuevas Ideas party presented the proposal to the legislative plenary, which contained four initiatives to reform five articles of the Constitution. The quotes verified below are hers, although her colleague Suecy Callejas also addressed...
Bukele claims that 90 percent of developed countries permit their head of government to be reelected indefinitely. That statistic is pure fiction; no serious data corroborates it. In reality, most of those countries operate under parliamentary systems, where prime...
