El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count
- El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won a supermajority in Congress, allowing Bukele to govern without opposition.
- Electoral observers and critics have raised concerns about irregularities and glitches in the vote-counting process, leading to a manual count of the votes.
- Bukele's victory in the presidency and Congress gives him even firmer control of all branches of government and the potential to alter the constitution to stay in power.
35 Articles
35 Articles
A few hours before the results were official, three opposition parties called for the cancellation of the vote due to alleged “irregularities”. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal will have to decide in the coming days whether to accept or reject this request.
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Committed Blatant Election Fraud
This month, incumbent Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele seemed poised to easily win reelection and sweep the legislature with his New Ideas party. But when his legislative supermajority appeared in doubt, Bukele and his supporters resorted to outright fraud. Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele greets supporters next to his wife Gabriela Rodriguez after the presidential and legislative elections in El Salvador on February 4, 2024. (Marvin Recinos…


Partidos opositores en El Salvador piden anular proceso electoral
Partidos políticos opositores en El Salvador pidieron declarar la nulidad y repetir los comicios legislativos y presidenciales del pasado 4 de febrero, tras las acusaciones de ser un proceso plagado de irregularidades y ventajismo. LEA TAMBIÉN: Finaliza escrutinio en elecciones legislativas en El Salvador El partido Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) presentó un escrito ante el Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) pidiendo …
The New Ideas (NI) party, of re-elected President Nayib Bukele, will dominate the Congress of El Salvador, winning 54 of 60 seats in the legislative elections of February 4, which opponents have asked to annul, the Electoral Tribunal announced Monday. “The New Ideas party obtained 54 deputies and their respective alternates,” said the president of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), Dora Martínez, on a national radio and television channel. After…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 40% of the sources are Center
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium