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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.
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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.

·Paris, France
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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…

·Spain
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Aristegui Noticias broke the news in Mexico City, Mexico on Sunday, February 18, 2024.
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