Leonor Arteaga, program director at the Due Process of Law Foundation: “The previous process for constitutional reform was designed to be serious and inclusive, allowing ample time for public debate and ensuring that a variety of expert perspectives could weigh in on constitutional changes. Now, with the modification of Article 248, constitutional amendments can be swept through with the vote of three-fourths of the legislature. President Nayib Bukele’s party holds 54 seats in a 60-seat Legislative Assembly—essentially meaning that the executive branch will be able to change El Salvador’s constitution at will, with no counterbalances or citizen input. The ruling party’s congressional supermajority, coupled with Bukele’s history of pushing through significant legal changes with no consultation, have already had serious antidemocratic consequences, among them reforms weakening anticorruption mechanisms and the successful elimination of the constitutional prohibition on consecutive re-election. In a context where not only the Legislative Assembly, but also the judiciary, has been coopted by the executive branch, and due process rights have been…”