El Salvador's vice president has delivered the final proposal for constitutional changes to President Nayib Bukele, including the extension of presidential terms and a new electoral tribunal body, the government said on Thursday.
The president's legal adviser, Javier Argueta, said in an interview with a local television station that Bukele will review and study the proposals before sending them to Congress, where Bukele's party has a large majority.
The lawyers put forward 216 reform proposals to the constitution relating to fundamental rights as well as El Salvador's political and economic system. At the moment, the reform package would need to be approved in one legislature and ratified by the other, before it could take effect. The government plans to use that mechanism to pass the proposed constitutional changes, Ulloa said in a statement.
Bukele would be in a strong position to push through any changes via referendums due to his high approval rating, which stands close to 85%, according to a recent poll by the newspaper La Prensa Grafica.