Populismo constitucional y reelecciones: Viscitudes institucionales en la experiencia sudamericana

Abstract

The recent Latin American comparative experience seems to have a common denominator, strong executive powers that have ruled for many presidential periods, at the expense of each constitutional model. Different variables sociological, political and economic might explain this situation, however, this article argues that the constitutional courts are the latest institutional spaces that have strengthened or have rethought the contemporary state model, favoring the extension of presidential power. To develop this research, I have taken the cases of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, particular experiences where presidents of the last decades have refounded the existing constitutional order and have extended their own presidential periods.