El Salvador's president Bukele says he will seek re-election
By Associated Press
September 16, 2022 at 12:05 a.m. EDT
FILE - El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele participates in the closing ceremony of a congress for cryptocurrency investors in Santa Maria Mizata, El Salvador, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. Bukele has announced on the country’s Independence Day that he will seek re-election to a second five-year term, one year after the new justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court appointed by his allies in the Legislative Assembly overturned the country’s constitutional ban on consecutive re-election. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Nayib Bukele announced Thursday night on El Salvador’s Independence Day that he will seek re-election to a second five-year term.
Bukele’s anticipated announcement came one year after the new justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court appointed by his allies in the Legislative Assembly ordered the Supreme Electoral Court to allow consecutive re-election despite the country’s constitutional ban.
Constitutional lawyers have said re-election violates at least four articles of the constitution, including one that limits the presidential term to five years and states that the person who serves as president will not continue in their functions for one day more.
The president enjoys extremely high popularity among Salvadorans, though he has faced growing criticism from human rights groups and foreign governments about his concentration of power.
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