El Salvador Top Court Rules President Can Run for 2nd Term
- Ruling party replaced judges in constitutional chamber in May
- Electoral court said it would comply with chamber’s ruling
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El Salvador’s Supreme Court constitutional chamber ruled that a sitting president can run for a second term following their first term, potentially allowing President Nayib Bukele to seek reelection, according to a decision issued late on Friday evening.
The chamber ordered the country’s electoral court to comply with its ruling “that a person who holds the Presidency of the Republic and hasn’t been President in the previous immediate period participates in the electoral contest for a second occasion.”