Nayib Bukele declared himself the winner with more than 85% of the votes and announced that his party, New ideas“swept away” the Legislative Assembly, despite the fact that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has not announced the official results of Sunday’s presidential elections, according to a message posted on his account on the social network X.
“According to our numbers, “We have won the presidential election with more than 85% of the votes and a minimum of 58 out of 60 deputies in the Assembly.” Legislative, Bukele assured. His message was received with the explosion of fireworks in San Salvador and its surroundings.
Nayib Bukele is the first president of El Salvador’s democratic era to seek immediate re-election and would be the first to repeat his term in office, despite the fact that the Constitution does not allow it, if his victory is officially confirmed.
The result was expected according to various surveys presented before the electoral event.
President Bukele’s popularity is the highest on the continent and one of the best in the world and marked Sunday’s election cycle. That and the security situation resulting from the policies of the Bukele government, have resulted in the numbers published by the president.
According to Supreme Electoral Court of El Salvador (TSE), for this Sunday’s day there are 5.47 million Salvadorans eligible to vote in 1,676 voting centers distributed in the 44 municipal districts of the country and in 29 countries where Salvadorans residing abroad vote.
The polls opened at 07:00 am and closed at 5:00 pm. m.
In the Legislative Assembly, with the number of seats reduced to 60, Nuevas Ideas needs 41 positions to maintain the qualified majority that allows him to continue doing what he has done since, in the previous legislative election, Bukele obtained supermajority: govern without being bothered by political opposition. All the polls predict that the president will reach these numbers without difficulty, and even the most optimistic analyzes for the opposition leave the rest of the parties with between 8 and 10 deputies.
Nayib Bukele would have achieved everything.