Vice President Félix Ulloa, appearing the day before at the International Conference on State and Democracy, in this capital city, defended the case and pointed out that it is under the strictest respect to the Constitution, which, he said, has not changed “a single comma, a single letter” to allow immediate re-election.

Quoted by local media, Ulloa maintained that on June 1 of this year, the president received “the ratification of his people” for his second term attached to the “strictest respect” of the Constitution and added that it is a fallacy “that the president had been re-elected unconstitutionally.”

Ulloa asserted that there is “a hidden article, referring to Article 152 (1) of the Constitution, on which the Constitutional Chamber relied to resolve, on July 3, 2021, that continuous re-election was allowed.

Ulloa’s comments came just hours after a Cid Gallup poll found the president has the support of nine out of 10 of his countrymen.

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