2023-10-20 05:58:56
Nayib Bukele will register his candidacy for re-election next week despite the constitutional prohibition. (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced this Thursday that he will register with the electoral authorities next week to seek reelection in the elections on February 4, 2024.
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“Of course I’m going to sign up, but not tomorrow. We still don’t know what day, but obviously we know that the last day is October 24, so in compliance with the law we are going to register before the deadline ends,” said Bukele following inaugurating a hydroelectric plant in San Luis de la Reina. , regarding 165 kilometers northeast of the capital.
The president, who announced his intention to be re-elected in September 2022 following the Supreme Court gave him the green light, despite the constitutional prohibition, assured that he has the support of the “largest party in history” and the “Salvadoran people.” ”, who will have “the last word” in the elections.
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He also indicated that this Friday the candidates for deputies to the Assembly and the Central American Parliament will register, according to statements collected by the Salvadoran newspaper El Mundo.
Bukele took advantage of his visit to San Luis de la Reina to launch the “3 de Febrero” hydroelectric plant, which has a generation capacity of 67 megawatts and seeks to increase energy production with renewable sources.
The ruler, who announced his intention to be re-elected in September 2022 following the Supreme Court gave him the green light, despite the constitutional prohibition. (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)
“We are delivering this project one hundred percent finished,” said Bukele, who explained that the work cost regarding 800 million dollars, four times more than expected when it began in 2008.
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The campaign for the February 4 elections began at the beginning of this month of October with Bukele as the favorite.
“Today the electoral campaign officially begins for the candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency of the Republic, for a period of 4 months,” wrote the head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Dora Martínez, on the social network X.
“Vote for Nayib Bukele’s N. Let’s go for everything,” the ruling party Nuevas Ideas published in “With the hand of the Salvadoran people, we will continue the refoundation of our country.”
Seven parties will compete in the elections, in which 60 deputies to the unicameral Congress will also be elected. More than six million Salvadorans are called to the polls.
On March 3, elections will be held for 44 municipal councils and 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament.
The campaign for the February 4 elections began at the beginning of this month of October with Bukele as the favorite. (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)
“I ask Salvadorans to give me their trust, their vote to transform this country and make it more competitive,” said the presidential candidate of the leftist Farabundo Martí Front (FMLN), Manuel “El Chino” Flores.
Polls give broad support to the 42-year-old president, who launched a “war” once morest criminal gangs in March 2022, which has earned him 90% approval, although his methods have been criticized by human rights organizations and the Church. Catholic.
In 2019, Bukele became president thanks to the center-right party Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (GANA), which remains his ally.
His running mate will once once more be Vice President Félix Ulloa.
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