By Deutsche Welle
The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) of El Salvador ratified the victory of Nayib Bukele, of the ruling party Nuevas Ideas (NI), in the presidential elections on February 4, which gave the current president 84.6% support electoral.
The electoral body issued the final scrutiny report of the election of president and vice president of El Salvador for the period 2024-2029, in which he ratifies the results of the election.
In the document, broadcast on Saturday night on the TSE’s social networks and signed by the entity’s five magistrates, it is noted that Nuevas Ideas had a total of 2,700,725 votes (84.6%), the leftist Frente Farabundo Martí for National Liberation (FMLN) obtained 204,167 (6.40%) and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) had 177,881 (5.57%).
Reelected despite constitutional ban
The humanist center party Nuestro Tiempo, which participated for the first time in the presidential elections, obtained 65,076 (2.04%) and the Fuerza Solidaria and Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña (FPS) groups registered 23,473 (0.74%) and 19,293 (0 .60%), respectively.
6,214,399 citizens were called for the February 4 elections3,268,466 voted, with a participation level of 52.60 percent.
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-electeddespite the constitutional prohibition, since the country left a decades-long military dictatorship and entered democracy.
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