The president declares that El Salvador will not be anyone’s “lackey” and opens the doors to making “friends, allies and partners”
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, claimed this Sunday to have won the country’s presidential and legislative elections “with more than 85 percent of the votes”, shortly after denouncing the closure of polling stations without allowing voters to vote. citizens who were still queuing.
“According to our numbers, we have won the Presidential election with more than 85 percent of the votes and a minimum of 58 of the 60 deputies of the Assembly. The record in the entire democratic history of the world. See you at 9:00 p.m. ( local time) in front of the National Palace. God bless El Salvador,” Bukele has published on his account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
According to provisional data published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) based on 31.49 percent of the vote, Bukele has more than 1,295,000 votes (around 76 percent support), which represents an abysmal advantage. Regarding the second force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), which has just over 110,000 votes (6.5 percent).
“El Salvador opens its doors wide for the citizens of all the countries of the world. We want them to come, to visit us, to get to know us. We want to be their friends, their allies, their partners. What we are not going to do is their lackeys. And it is not simply because we have that right, which we do, but also because we have already tried their recipes for 50 years and they never worked,” Bukele expressed during his celebration speech in reference to international criticism of his campaign against The gang.
Bukele exercised his right to vote this Sunday just an hour and a half before the scheduled time for the polls to close in a day that took place within an atmosphere of normality, although with some delays in the opening of some voting centers.
Opposition political parties have also denounced anomalies, such as the ARENA candidate, Joel Sánchez, who has denounced that Bukele’s party has continued to make propaganda inside the voting centers and has called for mobilization to vote.
