At the moment, “they don't have anything on the map,” not even an idea or conversation, about reforming the Constitution of the Republic, the Speaker of Parliament responded when asked about this possibility.
Experts say reforming the Magna Carta would require a first vote by the Legislature, which ends April 30, 2024, and ratification, which begins May 1, 2024.
“No, at the moment we don't have anything like that on the map. The thing is, if you ask me now, I would say no because there isn't even that, any conversation, any idea, no, nothing at all.”
There is currently a proposal under consideration since September 2021 and was presented by Vice President Felix Ulloa to President Nayib Bukele, but in recent months the issue has disappeared from the official scene.
Ulloa's proposal did not take into account the possibility of repeating the presidential elections in the immediate period, but it included approval of a referendum to ratify constitutional reforms, abolish the mandate, and create a social chamber and an electoral district in the Supreme Court. Among other things.
Since 2019 when Bukele assumed the presidency, El Salvador has been rocked by events that have stirred up the country's political framework, and now the next step may be to reform the constitution, commentators have assessed in recent months.
Miguel Ángel Cardoza, former judge of the Supreme Electoral Court and the Supreme Court of Justice, said that constitutional reform is possible in the coming years, in light of the fact that re-election has already become a reality.
Cardoza stressed that the Constitution of the Republic must be reconsidered due to the reinterpretation of the stone clauses, meaning that it cannot be amended as has happened now to enhance continuity in the government of the current president in the event that he wins, as everything seems to indicate, the optional process of February 4, 2024.
I think so, some things in the Constitution should be reviewed very carefully. “It would also be necessary to ask why this condition was a prerequisite that the election could not be rerun and it was interpreted, it was a prerequisite that one had to wait for five years and it was interpreted,” the former judge commented. .
He added that experts and experts on this subject are talking about objects that are “supposedly stone” because they were used according to the whims and needs of the current authorities.
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