The candidate for re-election claims to have won “85% of the votes”. The preliminary count, with 31% of the votes counted, also points to an overwhelming victory for Bukele. If he wins, he would be the first president to repeat his term, even though the constitution does not allow that.
The current president of El Salvador and candidate for re-election, far right Nayib Bukelehe assured this Sunday won the elections presidential and parliamentary elections of the country “with more than 85% of the votes. The self-proclamation has taken place for that they were known official data of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
If his victory is confirmed, he would be the first president to repeat his term in office – it will last another five years – despite the fact that the Constitution does not allow this. Bukele boasts of having “dismantled the gangs” and achieving one of the lowest murder rates in Latin America. In March 2022, the Salvadoran president imposed a Exception status which continues to this day and has suspended fundamental rights such as expression and organization. More than 70,000 people are in prison accused of being gang members.
After a ten-hour election day that passed without serious incidents, although with complaints of irregularities by the right-wing opposition, Bukele has decided to go to the balcony of the National Palace to celebrate his victory. According to Bukele, the elections were a kind of unofficial ‘referendum’ on his mandate.
In a jubilant tone, he declared that “El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world. Since democracy existed, no project has ever won with the number of votes we won today. is literally the highest percentage in all of history. It is the largest difference between first and second place in all of history. The opposition as a whole has been pulverized,” he added.
Crushing victory, according to the first official results
According to official data that is still preliminary (31.49% counted), Bukele obtained it 1,090,522 votes for his party, Nuevas Ideas (NI), far ahead of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left), with 93,846 votesand the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), with 81,102, according to data released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which must be ratified in a final investigation.
In this sense, Judge Guillermo Wellman of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) stated so the results presented by President Nayib Bukele by declaring himself the winner of the presidential election They are not official. “We are the ones who announce the official results,” he emphasized.
It’s worth remembering that The Salvadoran Constitution does not allow re-election. However, the Supreme Court judges reinterpreted the Magna Carta in favor of the president and reinstated him.
Source: EITB
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