El Salvador

Katarina Hall | 5.6.2024 4:48 PM

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele further solidified his grip on power with last week's inauguration of a new Congress. His party, New Ideas, now controls 90 percent of the seats, giving Bukele significant influence over legislative decisions, including potential changes to the Constitution for his reelection.

With 54 out of 60 seats secured by New Ideas and three seats held by its allied parties, the opposition finds itself with only a marginal presence in the new Congress. The current distribution of seats empowers Bukele to push forward his ambitious agenda to "re-found" the republic. After all, his party has not opposed a single one of his proposals since 2021.

New Ideas will no longer have to negotiate with the opposition to approve "the nation's general budget, international loans, authorize the issuance of debt, approve emergency regimes,........

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