Nayib Bukele

President of El Salvador El Salvador

Conservative

Security first, memes always: the self-styled "world's coolest dictator" trades civil liberties for safe streets — and dares critics to argue with the results.

Community poll — liberal or conservative?

Liberal 386 (22%)(78%) 1345 Conservative

Details — statements, goals & consistency record →

Most recent, with sources

2025-07-31Action

His supermajority amended the constitution to allow indefinite presidential reelection and six-year terms — clearing his path to rule beyond 2029, with the next election moved up to 2027.

2024-12-18Action

Agreed with the IMF to scale back the Bitcoin experiment — merchant acceptance became voluntary and the state Chivo wallet wound down — in exchange for a $1.4B program. The government kept accumulating BTC anyway.

Source: Global Government Fintech ↗

2024-02-04Action

Won reelection with about 85% of the vote after his state-of-exception gang crackdown — tens of thousands of detentions, the CECOT mega-prison — collapsed the murder rate in the former "murder capital of the world."

Source: TIME ↗

The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.