Nayib Bukele himself took the lead in proclaiming his victory on election night. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) formalized, Friday February 9, the broad re-election of the President of El Salvador after having completed the examination of the results of Sunday’s vote.
The ruling party, Nuevas Ideas, obtained 2.7 million votes, out of a total of 3.2 million votes in El Salvador and abroad, or 82.66% of the votes after the counting of the 8,644 polling stations. vote, explained the president of the TSE, Dora Martinez, in a press release.
The FMLN candidate, heir to the Marxist guerrillas, Manuel Flores, came in second with 6.25% of the vote, Ms. Martinez added. Joel Sanchez of the right-wing Arena party, meanwhile, received 5.44 percent, according to the final tally.
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The number of registered voters for the 2024 election was 6.2 million people, including 3.2 million voters for “a participation rate of 52.60%,” added the president of the TSE.
Nayib Bukele’s victory in the 2019 presidential election put an end to three decades of alternation in power of the FMLN and Arena, the two main parties in place since the end of the civil war in 1992.
After the final count of votes which opens him to five new years in office, Mr. Bukele, acclaimed for his war against gangs, thanked “the Salvadoran people” for their support, in a message on the social network now look at the results of the legislative elections.
