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Salvador’s legislature has approved extensive constitutional changes that allow indefinite presidency re -election, which effectively allows President Nayib Bukele to remain in power even after his current term.
A package of five reforms, which has passed 57-3 vote by Bukele’s new ideas and allies, also extends the presidential period to six years out of five and eliminates voting, excludes, vote, according to Legislative Assembly Salvador.
Opponents warn that this step focuses power and threatens democratic institutions, as the changes are removed by terms that have long served as a powerful powers.
The legislature of the new ideas of Ana Figueroa proposed to end Bukele’s current period two years earlier to match the presidential elections and congress elections in the same schedule. If approved, Bukele will end 1 June 2027, instead of June 1, 2029.
Figueroa continued and said that these changes would save millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. “Every choice of outflow costs a cost of approximately $ 50 million. With these sources we can build a new hospital and more schools,” she said.
Opponents claim that democracy is dying
Opposition legislator Marcel Villatoro by the nationalist Republican alliance was one of the three who voted against the proposals. Supposedly said The vote meant the death of democracy in Salvador.
“You do not realize what the indeterminate re -election brings: it brings the accumulation of power and weakens democracy … There is corruption and client, because neotism grows and stops democracy and political participation,” she added, according to AP.
SueCy Callejas, the first vice -president of the legislative assembly, which is also a member of the New Ideas party, allegedly prevented changes and said, “The strength has returned to the only place it really belongs to … Salvadorian people.
Constitutional changes come in the middle of wider fears of a democratic back series.
In June drew Bukele’s government criticism For the maintenance of a lawyer who is a critic of Bukele in prison that caught the attention of human rights defenders, he reported, etc. In the same month was another lawyer of the organization for human rights convicted to a six -month prison waiting for a court.
Despite international criticism, Bukele remains popular on the domestic market. A recent survey of the Laboratory of Public Opinion University of Salvador found More than 78% of the participants approved the performance of Bukele during the first year of its second term. Iudop-Gua survey gave him 8.15 out of 10 assessments for his sixth year in office.
Bitcoin policy draws mixed reviews
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Constitutional changes come when the international image of Salvador remains mixed, especially in terms of its economic and bitcoins (BTC) Strategy.
Last week this report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated Salvador did not buy any bitcoin because he signed Loan Agreement $ 1.4 billion In December 2024, where she agreed to return her bitcoin investment.
This statement contradicts the claims of the official bitcoin office of Salvador, which says the country continues to buy 1 bitcoins a day.
Message 16. June indicates that Salvador bought 240 Bitcoin after signing MMF agreement.
Currently, 6 255.18 BTC is held by El Salvador and the reserve in the last 30 days has increased by 31 BTC, in the last 30 days, according to to a bitcoin office.
Recently Salvador Signed a memorandum of understanding With the highest bank of Bolivia, which will strengthen the crypto infrastructure of Bolivia and improve the country’s crypt policy.
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