El Salvador court drops ban on presidential reelection

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s apical tribunal and its predetermination authorization person tossed speech what seemed to beryllium a law prohibition connected consecutive statesmanlike reelection. That sets the signifier for President Nayib Bukele to perchance question a 2nd word successful 2024. The court’s Constitutional Chamber told electoral leaders to licence a 2nd term, and the electoral authorization announced connected Saturday it would accept. The tribunal was precocious overhauled by Bukele’s enactment and the ruling alarmed critics who person agelong accused the fashionable person of authoritarian tendencies and accidental the ruling is intelligibly unconstitutional. Until now, courts person interpreted the constitution to forbid presidents from seeking reelection for 10 years.