El Salvador: electoral court ratifies Bukele’s victory with 84.6% support

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of The Savior ratified this Saturday the victory of Nayib Bukeleof the ruling party Novas Ideias (NI), in the presidential elections of February 4, which gave the current president 84.6% electoral support.

The electoral body issued the final report analyzing the election of the president and vice president of El Salvador for the period 2024-2029, in which it ratifies the results of the election.

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The document, published on Saturday night on the TSE’s social networks and signed by the entity’s five magistrates, states that New ideas had a total of 2,700,725 votes (84.6%), the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) obtained 204,167 (6.40%) and the right Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) had 177,881 (5.57%).

The Humanist Center Party Our timewho participated for the first time in the presidential elections, obtained 65,076 (2.04%) and the parties Solidarity Force It is Salvadoran Patriotic Brotherhood (FPS) recorded 23,473 (0.74%) and 19,293 (0.60%), respectively.

For the February 4 elections, 6,214,399 citizens were called, 3,268,466 voted, with a participation level of 52.60%.

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There were 15,064 abstentions (0.46%) and 1,760 contested votes (0.05%), according to data from the Electoral Court.

Bukele thus becomes the first president of El Salvador to be re-elected, despite the constitutional prohibition, since the country emerged from a decades-long military dictatorship and entered democracy.

Source: Elcomercio

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