The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) completed the audit of Sunday’s presidential elections this Friday and made official the re-election of President Nayib Bukele with an overwhelming 82.66 percent of the vote.
Nayib Bukele received 2.7 million votes, including those from abroad, out of a total of 3.2 million votes, making 82.66 percent after 100 percent of the 8,644 voting bodies were counted, he said in a statement to the President of the TSE. Dora Martinez, presses.
The official added that the presidential candidate of the former left-wing guerrilla Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), Manuel Flores, came in second place with just under 6.25 percent of the vote.
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In 2019, we won the presidency in the first round, with more votes than all other parties combined.
But in 2024, we won together with virtually every vote from every party in 2019, INCLUDING OURS.
Thank God. Thank you to the Salvadoran people pic.twitter.com/Jl8aibmnP5— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 10, 2024
Meanwhile, Joel Sanchez of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) got 5.44 percent, according to the final count.
The voter list for the 2024 election was 6.2 million people, of which 3.2 million voted for “a participation of 52.60 percent”Martinez added.
The FMLN and ARENA changed power since the end of the civil war (1980-1992), but their former presidents faced notorious corruption cases.
Bukele won the presidency for the first time in 2019 and broke this bipartisanship.
After the final count was completed, Bukele thanked the “Salvadorian people” for their electoral support on his account on the social network X.
The TSE will now begin examining the parliamentary elections.
president Thanks to his persistent “war” against gangs, Bukele enjoys great popularity This has reduced the crime caused by these criminal groups.
The “war” on gangs is maintained by an emergency regime that has been in place for two years and was extended for another month by Congress on Friday.
Under this regime, since questioned by human rights organizations allows arrests without a court order, 77,300 suspects were arrestedof whom 7,000 were released after their innocence was proven.
With information from AFP.
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