2024-02-04 02:57:03
The Savior celebrates this Sunday presidential and legislative elections under a regime of exception, which suspends some constitutional guarantees, and in the midst of the controversial nomination of the current president of the country, Nayib Bukelefor a second consecutive term.
With the emergency regime, a security measure implemented by the Bukele Government since March 2022 to combat gangs, The right to defense of detained persons is suspendedthe inviolability of telecommunications and the term of administrative detention is extended to a maximum of 15 days.
However, this measure makes a good part of the Salvadoran population feel “more secure”, who, according to the latest published surveys, will go out to vote “without fear”.
This measure, which has become the main and only action of the Executive once morest the gangs, has increased Bukele’s popularity, big favorite to win in these elections with more than 80% support, according to public opinion polls.
And although Bukele’s opponents and some sectors of society have denounced human rights violationsthe inhabitants of the populous communities and neighborhoods historically affected by the actions of gangs say they feel safe with this measure.
A predictable triumph
On Sunday, February 4, 2024, the more than 5.5 million Salvadorans called to vote They will choose their next president from a shortlist of six political parties, including Bukele’s ruling Nuevas Ideas (NI), who is seeking re-election, which according to polls he would obtain.
The ruler, 42 years old and with great popularity, is the first president of the Salvadoran democratic era with the option of seeking immediate re-election and, if he wins, he would be the first to repeat the position. even though the Constitution does not allow it.
The path to Bukele’s re-election opened in 2021, when the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, which had been appointed by the ruling majority Congress without following the legal procedure, changed an interpretation criterion of the Constitution.
The judges, accused by the United States of being “loyal” to the Bukele Executive, pointed out that the prohibition of immediate re-election It is for a ruler who has been in power for 10 years.
Until before this change, a president had to finish his 5-year term and wait 10 to seek the Presidency once more.
In addition, on February 4 there will be a vote for the first time for 60 deputations instead of 84, change that arose following the approval in the Legislative Assembly of a regulation promoted by the Bukele Government.
Bukele’s party is expected to obtain the majority of seats in Congress, according to survey measurements, which would continue to be the first political force of the Central American country.
The presidential election on February 4 will be the seventh since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992which represented the end of the civil war that El Salvador had experienced since 1980 and which left 75,000 dead and 8,000 missing.
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