{"id":21076,"date":"2021-09-09T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:46:40","slug":"el-salvadors-constitutional-court-paves-way-for-president-bukele-to-seek-reelection-following-purge-of-countrys-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/2021\/09\/09\/el-salvadors-constitutional-court-paves-way-for-president-bukele-to-seek-reelection-following-purge-of-countrys-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador\u2019s Constitutional Court Paves Way for President Bukele to Seek Reelection Following Purge of Country\u2019s Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, September 3, El Salvador\u2019s Constitutional Court issued a ruling allowing presidents\u00a0to run for consecutive reelection. The decision permits current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to seek reelection in 2024, defying the plain language of the constitution, which prohibits consecutive presidential reelection, and contradicting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corteidh.or.cr\/docs\/opiniones\/seriea_28_esp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights<\/a>. This development follows a series of blows to democracy and rule of\u00a0law in El Salvador that have raised growing international concern about the country\u2019s rapid\u00a0regression towards authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>In order for El Salvador to recommit to judicial independence, democracy, and the protection of human rights, the U.S. government and the international community should work together to\u00a0press the Bukele administration to reverse course.\u00a0DPLF joins the call and urges the international community to take action against the consecutive attacks on democracy in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, September 3, El Salvador\u2019s Constitutional Court issued a ruling allowing presidents\u00a0to run for consecutive reelection. The decision permits current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to seek reelection in 2024, defying the plain language of the constitution, which prohibits consecutive presidential reelection, and contradicting a\u00a0recent decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"country":[876,879],"issue":[913,870],"program":[872],"resource":[896],"class_list":["post-21076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicados","country-america-central","country-el-salvador","issue-authoritarianism-and-democratic-backsliding","issue-corruption-and-human-rights","program-judicial-independence","resource-press-releases"],"acf":{"boton_1":"Read the full statement\u00a0here","url_boton_1\u00ba":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/9.9.21_joint_statement_es_cc_reelection_judiciary_purge_eng97.pdf","boton_2":"","url_boton_2":"","boton_3":"","url_boton_3":"","boton_4":"","url_boton_4":"","boton_5":"","url_boton_5":"","boton_6":"","url_boton_6":"","boton_7":"","url_boton_7":"","boton_8":"","url_boton_8":"","boton_9":"","url_boton_9":"","boton_10":"","url_boton_10":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21079,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions\/21079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"resource","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource?post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}