El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count

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.

Recount confirms landslide win for El Salvador's Bukele

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been re-elected with 82 per cent of the vote, a recount of ballots has confirmed according to electoral authorities.

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…

Wahlen in El Salvador - Regierungspartei gewinnt fast alle Parlamentssitze

Bei der Parlamentswahl in El Salvador hat die Partei des autoritär regierenden Präsidenten Bukele fast alle Sitze gewonnen.

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…