Thread:ThatCatIsCool/@comment-25364637-20141114024433/@comment-6885353-20141114032234

in fact, every admin and bureaucrat has the power of promoting or demoting. There was even a bug for some time which allowed banned admins to unblock themselves, remove admin rights of everyother admin and block them. Fortunately this has been fixed. However I'm derailing. An admin who thinks of you as a good candidate HAS the power to promote you, just as much as he can demote you.

Edit: However, no one has any chance of getting promoted here since we're already a lot.