The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced this Thursday night, within the framework of the anniversary of the independence of Central America, that He will seek re-election in the 2024 presidential elections.
“After discussing it with my wife, Gabriela, and with my family, I announce to the Salvadoran people that I have decided to run as a candidate for the Presidency in the 2024 elections.“Bukele announced on a national radio and television network.
The president is the first president of the Salvadoran democratic stage with the option of seeking his immediate re-election after a change of criteria made by the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber that his allies in Congress elected in a widely criticized process.
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In a September 2021 ruling, These judges pointed out that the prohibition of immediate re-election is for a ruler who has been in power for 10 years, while in previous sentences a president had to finish his term of 5 years and wait 10 to seek the Presidency again.
Since then, President Bukele had not commented on the matter until this Thursday.
Surely, surely, more than one developed country will not agree with this decision, but it is not they who will decide, but rather the Salvadoran people.
The president pointed out that the decision to seek re-election is so that “we can continue this path that we have started, the path that for the first time in our history has proven to be the correct one.”
“Surely, surely, more than one developed country will not agree with this decision, but it is not they who will decide but the Salvadoran people,” Bukele pointed out.
And he added: “A free, sovereign and independent people.”
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At the close of the third year of the mandate, Bukele has maintained broad support from the population for his way of governing and, if nothing extraordinary happens by the end of his termit would be enough to win the presidential chair again.
The president pointed out that the decision to seek re-election is so that “we can continue this path that we have started, the path that for the first time in our history has proven to be the correct one.”
“Surely, surely, more than one developed country will not agree with this decision, but it is not they who will decide, but rather the Salvadoran people.Bukele pointed out.
And he added: “A free, sovereign and independent people.”
At the close of the third year of his term, Bukele has maintained broad support from the population for his way of governing and, if nothing extraordinary happens by the end of his term, it would be enough for him to win the presidential chair again.
EFE
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