El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly — which is controlled by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party — on Thursday approved a series of constitutional reforms, including abolition of presidential term limits, that critics warned pose a grave threat to the Central American nation’s fragile democracy.

As El Faro reported , lawmakers approved measures allowing for indefinite presidential terms, expanding the current five-year presidential terms to six years, eliminating the second round of presidential elections, and advancing the end of Bukele’s term from 2029 to 2027 in order to synchronize presidential, legislative, and municipal elections.

New Ideas Congresswoman Ana Figueroa, who proposed the reforms, argues that if other elected offices in El Salvador do not have term l

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