With full control of President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party, the new Salvadoran Congress was installed on Wednesday, where the ruling party holds 54 of the 60 legislative seats. Congressman Ernesto Castro, of Nuevas Ideas, will preside over the unicameral...
Social organizations, human rights organizations, unions, family members of innocent people captured under the state of exception, war veterans, among others, held a march on May 1st to commemorate International Workers’ Day, exposing their complaints about the...
The amendment adds a new path, allowing this process to be carried out in the same legislature with the votes of three-quarters of the elected deputies. In this way, once ratified by the incoming Assembly, changes to the Constitution can be made expeditiously, as is...
The outgoing Nayib Bukele Legislative Assembly forced and opened a constitutional lock that was meant to remain closed to prevent rulers from using the Constitution of the Republic for their benefit. With the doors open, the next legislature – which will continue to...
The outgoing deputies took advantage of the last plenary session to give the incoming legislature the power to expeditiously change the Constitution. The deputies who will begin their term on May 1st only need to ratify the amendment to Article 248, which was approved...
Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) magistrate Julio Olivo stated on Monday that El Salvador is internationally recognized for having an authoritarian government and considered that more and more Salvadorans, as well as citizens in Latin America and even Europe,...
