Nayib Bukele receives credential as elected president of El Salvador for the period 2024-2029

He Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) delivered this Thursday to the Nayib Bukele his credential as president-elect for the period 2024-2029, after achieving immediate re-election for a second consecutive term on February 4, despite the Constitution prohibiting this.

The vice president-elect, Felix Ulloaalso received his credential, in an event held at the National Theater of San Salvadorin the heart of the capital, and broadcast on national radio and television.

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“He Supreme Electoral Court the country fulfills by declaring elected citizens who were chosen with the free, sovereign, secret and equal vote of the population“, said the president of the TSE, Dora Esmeralda Martinez.

He assured that “We carry out the country by delivering official credentials to elected officials today”and catalogued“historic”the democratic participation of more than 3 million citizens (just over 50% of the electoral roll), in the last elections, which “gives people faith and confidence in the court system and work”.

Martínez added that the last day of elections took place “completely normal and orderly, and with peaceful and hassle-free voting”.

Deputies, members of the current Government’s cabinet, magistrates of the supreme court of justice (CSJ), ambassadors accredited in the country, representatives of international organizations and special guests.

On February 18th, TSE ratified the victory of Nayib Bukele, from the ruling party New ideas (NI), in the presidential elections on February 4, which gave the current president 84.6% of the valid votes, more than 2.7 million.

Bukele and Ulloa will continue in a second term at the head of the Government of The Savior starting next June 1st for a period of five years.

He thus became the first president to be re-elected in El Salvador since the country became a democracy, despite the constitutional prohibition on immediate re-election.

Before Bukele, the dictator and military had already done this Maximiliano Hernández Martínezwho governed between 1931 and 1944.

The final count of the February 4 elections confirmed that Bukele obtained 2,700,725 votes (84.6%) in the first round, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) obtained 204,167 votes (6.40%) and the right Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) reached 177,881 (5.57%).

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Bukele, with Arab roots and son of a businessman Armando Bukele it’s from Olga Marina Orteztook a big leap forward in Salvadoran politics after his expulsion from FMLNnow a minority opposition party, in 2017.

His experience as an advertiser and his image as a young, carefree politician allowed him to capitalize on Salvadorans’ discontent against the political class.

Bukele won the first round of the 2019 elections and broke with the so-called “bipartisanship”from FMLN and Sandwhich was repeated in Congress in 2021, when his image gave the Nuevas Ideas (NI) party an absolute majority in Congress.

Source: Elcomercio

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