Source: International Business Times
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will be allowed to run for election again, indefinitely AFP El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele secured the right to seek indefinite re-election on Thursday after his party-controlled Congress approved a sweeping constitutional reform that also extends presidential terms from five to six years. Bukele, 44, who has been president since 2019 and was re-elected in 2024 with 85 percent of the vote, now holds near-total control over the country's institutions -- in what the opposition calls a "dictatorship. "In a fast-tracked vote, 57 of 60 lawmakers passed measures allowing re-election "without reservation", extending the presidential term from five to six years, and doing away with a second round of voting in elections.
