El Salvador's Congress votes to eliminate public campaign financing

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With a simplified constitutional reform process, the Salvadoran Congress on Wednesday crystallized President Nayib Bukele's promise to eliminate state funding to political parties for their electoral campaigns, in a measure that was questioned by some sectors of civil society.

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El Salvador's Congress votes to eliminate public campaign financing

Lawmakers in El Salvador have taken advantage of a newly streamlined constitutional reform process to eliminate public financing of political campaigns, making good on a promise of President Nayib Bukele

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The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, dominated by the ruling New Ideas (NI), approved on Wednesday a reform of the Constitution that eliminates the public funding of political parties for elections.

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Punto y Coma MX “Because I do believe that political debt must be eliminated in El Salvador. Political parties can be financed as we financed ourselves in 2019. Hard? Yes, it was difficult. But wasn’t it better that way?” Bukele published on social network X. With a simplified constitutional reform process, the Salvadoran Congress crystallized on Wednesday President Nayib Bukele’s promise to eliminate state funding to political parties for their…

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With 58 votes in favour, the Legislative Assembly approved the elimination of article 210 of the Constitution of the Republic, thus eliminating the political debt, which was protected by that article. This act marked the new method for carrying out reforms to the Magna Carta, following the reform of article 248, on 29 January, where only one vote will be necessary for the approval of a constitutional reform, according to the reform 45 votes are …

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In the upcoming electoral processes, political parties will have to self-finance their campaign expenses, after the deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved, with 58 votes, the repeal of article 210 of the Constitution of the Republic in order to eliminate the political debt. This decision, taken in the 43rd plenary session, annuls the financing mechanism with which the State proceeded to cover the expenses generated by the electoral promot…