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Weekly Report - 07 August 2025 (WR-25-31)
EL SALVADOR: Bukele removes final obstacle to indefinite rule
No amount of constitutional padlocks can stop a determined autocrat. El Salvador’s constitution was full of them and yet they were all dismantled this week as a legislative assembly controlled by President Nayib Bukele’s personalist Nuevas Ideas (NI) party pushed through amendments to the constitution to allow indefinite presidential re-election, amid other substantial electoral reforms. Domestic criticism was restricted given the weakness of the opposition, the stifling of dissent, and the timing of the reform, directly before an extended national holiday. Bukele vigorously defended the change from some more forthright foreign criticism, accusing developed countries of double standards on democratic values.
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