The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleannounced this Tuesday that in the next three days he will ask “license” to the Legislative Assembly to participate in the electoral campaign and seek re-election in February.
“As you all know, in approximately three days I am going to request a license from the legislative Assembly to dedicate myself to the campaign and I will not be acting as president“Bukele told his ministers in a meeting broadcast on radio and television.
The president assured 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 in the next six months, Bukele urged his ministers to “get the batteries” and work, after warning that there will be an evaluation so that they can continue in an eventual second term.
“I want you to remember me as the president who did not steal and who did not let anyone steal, and whoever stole he put in jail“, said.
The president asked the attorney general Rodolfo Delgadopresent at the meeting, to investigate all the ministers.
“I want to ask (the prosecutor) in public that everyone who is here be investigated, backwards and forwards. I imagine there is no problem with that.”, he emphasized.
After breaking the two-party system of left and right in 2019, this businessman of the generation millennial It has the support of 90% of citizens, according to surveys.
Nayib Bukele Since March 2022, he declared a war against the gangs, with which the country regained tranquility.
Protected by an emergency regime that is criticized by humanitarian organizations, the authorities have imprisoned more than 73,000 alleged gang members, but some 7,000 innocent people were released.
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With the ability to communicate his ideas, the 42-year-old president has broken traditional political patterns.
Bukele’s power was consolidated in 2021 when his party New ideas obtained a majority in Congress, which allowed him to remove and replace five magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court.
In September 2021, the Constitutional Chamber, through an interpretation of the Constitution, authorized Bukele to seek re-election, generating a controversy because constitutionalists and opponents consider that it is “unconstitutional”.
