El Salvador Approves Indefinite Presidential Reelection And Extends Presidential Terms To 6 Years

San Salvador, El Salvador (AP) – President of El Salvador Nayib bouquet Constitutional amendments that will allow the presidency to be re -elected in the National Assembly of the country on Thursday and raise the presidential conditions to six years.

Ana Figueroa, the deputy of the New Ideas Party, proposed to amendments to five articles of the Constitution. The offer also included the elimination of the second round of the election, which used two best votes from the first round.

New ideas and allies in the National Assembly, superiority They keep it. The vote was in favor of 57 and as three opposite.

Bouquet An overwhelming majority was re -selected Even though last year A constitutional prohibitionAfter the Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals elected by his party, he decided that he allowed a second five -year -old period to be re -elected in 2021.

Figueroa said on Thursday that Federal MPs and mayors may ask for as many as much as they want.

“There was a possibility of re -elected with popular votes, so far the only exception was the presidency,” Figueroa said.

In addition, the current period, which was planned to end on June 1, 2029, was proposed to finish the presidential and congress elections on the same program. It will also allow Bukele to be re -elected in the longer term two years ago.

From the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), one of the three votes against the proposals, Marcela Villatoro said to MPs, “Democracy in El Salvador is dead!” He said.

“You do not realize what the election has brought the vague re -election: it brings a accumulation of power and weakens democracy … There is corruption and customerism because favoritism expands and stops democracy and political participation,” he said.

“The power really belongs to the people of Salvador.” He said.

Bouquet did not comment immediately.

Once upon a time, the bouquet, which calls himself the “coolest dictator in the world ,, is extremely popular because of the country’s heavy struggle against powerful street gangs.

Before the voters negotiate with gangs, before a call emergency This suspended some constitutional rights and allowed the authorities to arrest and imprison tens of thousands of people.

His success with security and politics inspired the imitators trying to multiply his style in the region.