The Bukele party allows an indefinite presidential re -election in Salvador

The New Ideas Party of the Salvadoral President Nayib Bukele has paved the way for him to potentially keep power in the Nation of Central America by revising the country’s electoral system.

The new bill extends the presidential terms at six years old and allows an indefinite presidential re -election.

The country’s presidential conditions were initially five years and an immediate re -election was prohibited. However, in 2021, the Supreme Court of the country – filled with judges chosen by the Bukele party – ruled that the president could request a second term, The Associated Press reported.

Critics said Bukele’s re -election in 2024 was unconstitutional.

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The members of new ideas and their allies of the Legislative Assembly used their supermajority to adopt modifications to five articles from the constitution of the country and adopted the measure in a vote of 57 to 3 on July 31. According to the Associated Press, the new ideas, Ana Figueroa, also included a provision to eliminate the second round of the elections in which the two higher candidates are also in the lead.

Salvado and Salvado President Nayib Bukele Wave during his inauguration ceremony in Gerardo Barrios Square outside the National Palace in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 2019. (Oscar Rivera / AFP via Getty Images)

“It’s quite simple, El Salvador: You alone have the power to decide how long you want to support the work of any civil servant, including your president,” said Figueroa, According to Reuters. “You have the power to decide how long you support your president and all elected officials.”

Meanwhile, other legislators expressed their frustration towards the bill, with a death of the death of democracy.

President Donald Trump, on the right, shakes the hand of Salvadoral President Nayib Bukele at a meeting at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, April 14, 2025. (Al Drago for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

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The nationalist legislator of the Republican Alliance Marcela Villatoro told its colleagues that “democracy in Salvador has died!”

“You do not realize what indefinite re -election brings: it brings an accumulation of power and weaken democracy … There is corruption and customers because nepotism grows and interrupts democracy and political participation,” said Villatoro, according to the Associated Press.

Penitentiary agents are staring at a cellular block at the maximum security penitentiary CECOT on April 4, 2025, in Tecoleca, San Vicente, El Salvador. (Alex Peña / Getty)

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Bukele, who was elected for the first time in 2019, became a little polarizing figure because his repression against crime made him popular with voters, while criticism fear that he is trying to consolidate power. While Bukele’s difficult policies have caused a fall in homicides, human rights groups say that innocent people have been taken in mass arrests.

Human Rights Watch published a report in July 2024 in which he found that around 3,000 children had become victims of repression, which began in 2022. In the summary of the report, the group tells the story of a 17-year-old girl who was arrested without a mandate and finally forced to plead guilty of collaboration with the notorious Gang MS-13.

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Last year, Bukele said Time Magazine That he would not seek a third term, although he can change his air following constitutional reforms.