US EditionEl 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.
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
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