For parliamentarian Claudia Ortiz, from the Vamos party, it is curious that the plenary session that was to take place on Wednesday was rescheduled for this Monday, which may be a preview of a long reading of some reform initiative that has been floating around at the local political environment for more than a year.

Last week, Ortiz recommended his compatriots to “be alert” to a possible constitutional modification that, among other actions, may legitimize continued reelection to the presidency for an unlimited period. “We should not always be thinking that there is going to be something taking the country by surprise, in terms of passing a law, that generates a lot of legal uncertainty, and it should not be like that, because it is not the way to approve reforms to the Constitution; there should be a debate,” he said.

For Ortiz, constitutional reforms must be aimed at expanding the rights of citizens to provide them with what is necessary as much as possible and must be aimed at empowering someone.

The possibility of a reform proposal was ruled out by the president of parliament, Deputy Ernesto Castro, even though the country’s vice president, Félix Ulloa, considered that this was the right time to introduce the initiative.

Other spokespersons in the legislature related to “Nuevas Ideas” assuring that it is “the right time since the country’s Constitution establishes that one (Assembly) approves and another ratifies reforming the Constitution.”

In the hands of President Bukele there is a proposal from a group of experts led by Ulloa, which proposes profound modifications in a total of 218 proposals contained in a document that an “ad hoc” team proposes to the current Constitution of El Salvador, which has its foundations in 1950, renovated in 1962 and 1983.

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