2024-04-08 04:11:17
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Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
El Salvador experienced an election night this Sunday in which more than six million citizens went to the polls and once again proclaimed Nayib Bukele as their president.
A few hours after the voting centers closed, the exit poll results proclaimed Bukele as the absolute winner of the 2024 presidential elections.
According to the polls, the Nuevas Ideas party, which Bukele represents, positioned itself with an advantage over its opponents of between 87% and 70.9% of votes in its favor: Likewise, the preliminaries of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal also showed this to the ahead of the elections.
With this victory, Nayib Bukele makes history as the first president of that nation to be re-elected, paving the way for a new five-year term. It is worth noting that although the Constitution of El Salvador prohibits consecutive terms, Bukele announced his candidacy for reelection after a ruling in his favor in the Supreme Court.
The ruling of the highest court argued that “allowing the nomination of the President to compete again for the presidency does not de facto imply that he will be elected, it only implies that the people will have among their range of options the person who at that time “At the moment he holds the presidency, and it is the people who decide whether to place their trust in him again or opt for a different option.”
Despite the controversy aroused by his nomination, the Court announced as the only condition for Bukele that he could not exercise power six months before the elections, which he complied with. So that he could participate in the elections, Parliament granted a special license for six months to the president in December and, in his place, appointed Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara in command.
In June 2019, Bukele assumed the Presidency of El Salvador, gaining great popularity over time in most sectors of his nation. Among the achievements attributed during his mandate is having reduced the violence of the maras and gangs to a minimum, according to international media.
To do this, the president resorted to the emergency regime decreed in March 2022, which he has since extended 22 times. The measure suspends constitutional rights of citizens, which is why it has been harshly questioned by human rights organizations.
According to figures published by the government, as of May 2023, El Salvador had experienced 365 days without homicides, a record applauded by some and questioned by several international institutions and local media.
With his proclamation as president, Bukele left his competition out of the ring, led by Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front party (FMLN), Luis Parada of Nuestro Tiempo, Joel Sánchez of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA ), José Javier Renderos from Fuerza Solidaria and Ana Marina Murillo from Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña.