Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday signed a constitutional amendment that will allow him to remain in office as long as he wins elections, International Herald Tribune reported.
The amendment to end term limits for all elected officials - approved by voters in a referendum on Sunday - will take effect once it is published in Venezuela's Official Gazette.
"I may have performed up until how," Chavez told red-clad supporters in a poor Caracas neighborhood. "But now, I will now perform 100 times more."
Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, has declared himself a pre-candidate for presidential elections in 2012 - when he was constitutionally barred from running again.
It was Chavez's second attempt to change Venezuela's constitution to end the two six-year term limits set on the presidency. In December 2007, voters rejected a reform package that would have allowed Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely and expanded his power.
Venezuela's Chavez signs amendment to end limits
