The parliament of El Salvador on Wednesday ratified revisions to the Constitution promoted by Nayib Bukele, despite strong objections from the opposition, which denounced it as a “new ‘proof’ of the ‘concentration’ of power” in the hands of the president of the Central American state.

A total of fifty-seven members of the Salvadoran national delegation, of which 54 are members of the New Ideas (Nuevas Ideas, NI) party, the presidential majority, out of a total of 60 in the parliament, ratified this revision, which was approved in first reading by the previous parliament in April 2024.

For his part, the president of the New Ideas parliamentary group, Christian Guevara, pointed out that among the main purposes of this revision was to “eliminate” from the Constitution an article that provided for public funding of political parties.

“No more funding political parties with people’s money,” celebrated via X, Nayib Bukele, who was triumphantly re-elected to the presidency in February 2024, securing more than 80 percent of the vote.