Nayib Bukele will ask El Salvador’s Congress for permission to seek re-election in 2024

The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleannounced this Tuesday that in the next three days it will ask “license”to the Legislative Assembly to participate in the electoral campaign and seek re-election in February.

“As you all know, within approximately three days I will request a license from the legislative Assembly dedicate myself to the campaign and will not act as president“Bukele told his ministers in a meeting broadcast on radio and television.

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The president guaranteed that in the February 4 elections the Salvadoran people will decide whether to re-elect him along with the vice president. Felix Ulloa for a second term.

Given his absence for the next six months, Bukele urged his ministers to “get the batteries” and work, after announcing that there will be an evaluation so that they can continue in a possible second term.

“I want you to remember me as the president who didn’t steal and who didn’t let anyone steal, and whoever stole put him in jail“, he said.

The president asked the attorney general Rodolfo Delgadopresent at the meeting, to investigate all ministers.

“I want to publicly ask (the Public Ministry) that everyone who is here be investigated, backwards and forwards. I imagine there’s no problem with that.”, he emphasized.

After breaking the two-party system of left and right in 2019, this generation businessman millennial It has the support of 90% of citizens, according to surveys.

Nayib Bukele Since March 2022, he declared war on gangs, with which the country regained tranquility.

Protected by an emergency regime criticized by humanitarian organizations, authorities arrested more than 73,000 alleged gang members, but around 7,000 innocent people were released.

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With his ability to communicate his ideas, the 42-year-old president broke traditional political standards.

Bukele’s power was consolidated in 2021, when his party New ideas obtained a majority in Congress, which allowed him to dismiss and replace five magistrates from the Constitutional Chamber from the Supreme Court.

In September 2021, the Constitutional Chamber, through an interpretation of the Constitution, authorized Bukele to seek re-election, generating controversy because constitutionalists and opponents consider that it is “unconstitutional”.

Source: Elcomercio

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