# The Assembly removes presidential term limits in a single session

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 31 July 2025 the Legislative Assembly approved and ratified, the same day, constitutional reforms allowing indefinite presidential re-election, a six-year term, no runoff, and an earlier 2027 vote.

## Context

Nuevas Ideas held a supermajority. Neighbouring 2021 ruling is the parent consecutive-unlock. Neighbouring 2026 filing is the child. He did not sit as every deputy.

Re-election ruling 2021 is the parent. Third-term filing 2026 is a child. 2024 election is neighbouring.

The President of El Salvador heads the executive, commands the armed forces, and can request a state of exception that the Legislative Assembly must approve and extend. He does not write a Constitutional Chamber judgment by himself, an IMF board decision, or a [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designation. The Assembly, PNC, Fiscalía, and prison service share specific files. A homicide print is not a unique due-process coefficient. Gang membership is not proven by detention alone.

## Evidence and sources

Legislative Assembly of El Salvador carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed same-day removal of term limits is a dated rotation-rule collapse.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 31 July 2025 same-day approval and ratification, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He owned the supermajority and later filed to run. Ulloa filed beside him.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Assembly removes presidential term limits in a single session, not a later speech about The Assembly removes presidential term limits in a single session.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Assembly removes presidential term limits in a single session on 2025-07-31 is not a licence to treat every later Legislative Assembly of El Salvador communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Assembly removes presidential term limits in a single session into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Assembly voted 57–3. He owned the supermajority and later filed to run. Ulloa filed beside him. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nayib Bukele: https://factrail.ai/people/nayib-bukele

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-indefinite-reelection-bukele-2025-07-31/
- https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sv-indefinite-2025