Back

Weekly Report - 09 September 2021 (WR-21-36)

Bukele sweeps aside final obstacle to indefinite rule in El Salvador

“The dictatorship is consummated”. This was the response by Oscar Ortiz, the secretary general of El Salvador’s left-wing opposition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), to a 3 September ruling by the constitutional chamber (SC) of the supreme court (CSJ) lifting the ban on consecutive presidential re-election. President Nayib Bukele, who took office in June 2019, will now be able to seek a further term in 2024. The decision is the latest outcome of the assumption in May of a new legislature controlled by Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas (NI), which swiftly dismissed the previous SC. No other constitution in the region is quite so emphatic in barring presidential re-election, but the SC got around this by questioning the validity of the constitution itself. The supreme electoral court (TSE) upheld the SC’s ruling and Bukele’s power grab was complete.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 1132 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

LatinNews
Intelligence Research Ltd.
167-169 Great Portland Street,
5th floor,
London, W1W 5PF - UK
Phone : +44 (0) 203 695 2790
Contact
You may contact us via our online contact form
Copyright © 2022 Intelligence Research Ltd. All rights reserved.