{"id":477298,"date":"2025-08-03T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/president-bukele-on-indefinite-re-election-why-is-it-different-in-el-salvador\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:44:10","slug":"president-bukele-on-indefinite-re-election-why-is-it-different-in-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/president-bukele-on-indefinite-re-election-why-is-it-different-in-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bukele on indefinite re-election: “Why is it different in El Salvador?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

San Salvador.-<\/strong> The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele,<\/strong> defended immediate re-election this Sunday, after the Congress of this country reformed the Constitution to allow it, and pointed out that “90% of developed countries allow” indefinite re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n“90% of developed countries allow the indefinite re-election of their head of government, and nobody bats an eye<\/strong>“, he pointed out on X and indicated that “but when a small and poor country like El Salvador tries to do the same, it suddenly becomes the end of democracy”.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>: Ecuador is inspired by the Bukele model for new prison projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nFurthermore, it was pointed out that “if El Salvador were to declare itself a parliamentary monarchy with the same rules as the United Kingdom, Spain or Denmark, they would still not support it. In fact, they would be furious if that happened.”\n\nThe Legislative Assembly, dominated by the Nuevas Ideas (NI) party, approved and ratified, in a single day on July 31 without prior analysis or debate, the reform to articles 75, 80, 133, 152 and 154 of the Constitution.\n\nWith what was approved in the Salvadoran Congress, President Bukele has a clear path to seek a third consecutive term. However, so far the president has not made public his intentions to run.\n\nBukele’s allies in Congress also reformed the Constitution so that the presidential term changes to six years – when it was five – and eliminated the second round of elections.\n\nFor Juanita Goebertus, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), the ruling party Nuevas Ideas, of President Bukele, “is going down the same path as Venezuela” by promoting a constitutional reform that allows for indefinite presidential re-election.\n\nMeanwhile, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) condemned on Friday what it considers “a flagrant manipulation of El Salvador’s constitution”, which “removes limits on the presidential term, granting Bukele unlimited re-elections and 6-year terms.” \n\n“This is where years of gradual constitutional manipulation lead: to the dismantling of democracy,” he pointed out in a message on X.\n\nThe civil organization Acci\u00f3n Ciudadana stated in a press release issued on Friday that “allowing indefinite presidential re-election and extending the term of office does not seek to empower the people, nor to save public funds; on the contrary, its real objective is to perpetuate the president in power.” ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Salvador.- The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, defended immediate re-election this Sunday, after the Congress of this country reformed the Constitution to allow it, and pointed out that “90% of developed countries allow” indefinite re-election. “90% of developed countries allow the indefinite re-election of their head of government, and nobody bats an eye“, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":477299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13779],"class_list":{"0":"post-477298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-nayib-bukele"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG_1252.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20am","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG_1252.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}