If not for a family promise, Bukele could rule for years on end.
Based on reported domestic approval ratings, Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, consistently tops broader global lists with approval ratings in the 85-91% range throughout 2025.
He even outperforms well-rated leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Having come to power in 2019, Bukele is serving his second term, and has said he was ‘open to staying in power for another decade’.
Reuters reported:
“’If it were up to me, I would stay for 10 more years’, Bukele said in a video interview published by Spanish YouTuber TheGrefg on Monday. He noted that he had initially agreed with his wife that he would leave politics in 2029.”
¡NUEVO VÍDEO!
CONOCÍ A NAYIB BUKELE (PRESIDENTE DE EL SALVADOR)
Como te dije en persona @nayibbukele, gracias por tomarte el tiempo de recibirme en Casa Presidencial y contestar mis preguntas. Que Dios te bendiga.
https://t.co/koCtjO5jOn pic.twitter.com/o2VPddKEL0
— Grefg =) (@TheGrefg) December 29, 2025
El Salvador’s next presidential election will be held in 2027, for a mandate until 2033.
“Bukele will be eligible to run for a third term, after the ruling party-controlled Congress pushed through a constitutional reform in July to abolish term limits, bring forward the next election and extend presidential terms from five to six years.”
BUKELE FOREVER: El Salvador’s Congress ENDS Term Limits with 54-6 vote, stretches Presidency to 6 years, and scraps run-offs!
With 80%+ approval, Bukele can now rule indefinitely.
Leftists screams “dictator,” but the People LOVE @nayibbukele.
DO YOU LIKE THIS MOVE? pic.twitter.com/6AdmIP39AE
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) August 2, 2025
2025 pic.twitter.com/irtSHzKgki
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) December 30, 2025
It’s unsurprising that the Reuters reporting gives voice to ‘legal experts’ to question the legality of Bukele’s extension of his term.
But they have to admit that in 2024, ‘Bukele won his second term with a landslide victory’.
“The wildly popular 44-year-old publicist enjoys some of the world’s highest approval ratings thanks to a hardline approach to crime which has helped drastically reduce murder rates.”
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