2024-02-05 04:35:57
As already planned, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukelehas swept the presidential elections in which he has had practically no opponents after a campaign in which he reinforced his message against gangs with data that his government presented about its fight against criminal organizations.
According to the official results, which took a while to begin to be made public, Bukele achieved a very high vote above 80%, a figure that confirms his popularity ratings recorded in recent months, despite complaints from some sectors regarding his methods to combat the crime that had taken over the Central American country. With 31.49% of the scrutinythe president achieved 1,295,888 votes for his party, New Ideas (NI)far ahead of Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left)with 110,244, and the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right)con 96.700.
It was the president himself who gave the results citing “his numbers” and before the first statement from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Through the social network world”.
According to our numbers, we have won the presidential election with more than 85% of the votes and a minimum of 58 of 60 deputies in the Assembly.
The record in the entire democratic history of the world.
See you at 9pm in front of the National Palace.
God bless El Salvador.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 5, 2024
In a press conference shortly after the closing of the polling stations, Bukele spoke about his Government’s measures to combat insecurity, which are mainly sustained by an emergency regime in force since March 2022 and during which they have been 76,000 people detained. “What is coming for El Salvador is a period of prosperity,” because “we did the surgery, we did the chemotherapy, we are doing the radiotherapy and we are going to come out healthy and without the gang cancer,” he said.
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