MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he would like to run for re-election and change the constitution to allow voters to put him in office as many times as they want.

Nicaragua’s constitution doesn’t allow for immediate re-election and bans anyone who has served as president for two terms to run again.

Ortega told Al-Jazeera’s David Frost that "those obstacles shouldn’t exist."

Ortega, whose first government fought U.S.-backed rebels in the 1980s, returned to power in 2006 elections.

Lawmakers of Ortega’s Sandinista Party have said they plan to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow him to run for another consecutive term.