nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5b1cea6fe5df5dad DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231113s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5b1cea6fe5df5dad doi eng 342 23 Graute, Lukas Author aut (orcid)0009-0006-2778-2016 A Second Term for “the World’s coolest Dictator”? Graute, Lukas Verfassungsblog 2023-11-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On October 26, Nayib Bukele, current President of the Republic of El Salvador, officially registered his candidacy for the presidency. This is in clear violation of El Salvador’s Constitution which prohibits the renewed, consecutive candidacy of a sitting president.  In the "Western" media, Bukele has mostly made the news for establishing "mega-prisons" and conducting mass arrests under his watch. In this blogpost, I highlight the political moves that Bukele has made to legitimize his rule and methods, including his repeated extension of El Salvador’s state of emergency and his capture of the Constitutional Chamber. Together with his renewed candidacy, his rule has destroyed El Salvador’s adherence to its own constitutional framework. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Democratic Backsliding El Salvador elections judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-second-term-for-the-worlds-coolest-dictator/ raw object