The Supreme Electoral Tribunal stopped updating the preliminary count figures for hours and when it resumed it went from 31.49% of records processed to 70.25%.
The overwhelming re-election of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is notable, despite the slow progress of the scrutiny of the presidential elections held on Sunday in the Central American country.
Until this Monday morning, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) reported on its website regarding the processing of only 2,697 of 8,562 minutes, that is, 31.49% of them. The figure stopped updating, according to La Prensa Gráfica, at 10:00 on Sunday night.
Subsequently, hours later, in the data transmission there was a jump to 70,25 % of the minutes processed (6,015 of 8,562). With the new data, the president of the ‘hard hand’, supported by the New Ideas party, reaches 1,662,313 votes; followed by former deputy Manuel Flores, of the Farabundo Martà National Liberation Front (FMLN), with 139,025; while in third place is businessman Joel Sánchez, from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), with 122,926.
In fourth place is the lawyer Luis Parada, from Nuestro Tiempo, with 45,516 votes; He is followed by obstetrician José Renderos, from Fuerza Solidaria, with 16,317; and in last place is the architect Marina Murillo, from the Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity (FPS), with only 13,432.
For these elections, according to the TSE, at least 6,214,399 people were qualified to vote; 5,473,305 of them in El Salvador and the remaining 741,094 abroad.
“We defeated the two-party system”
Bukele has already spoken regarding the first results, declaring himself the winner. He showed that the opposition in his country has been “pulverized”.
“We overcame the bipartisanship that had us subjugated and turned the page. “We put an end to the post-war,” said Bukele, who becomes the first president of El Salvador to be immediately re-elected in decades.
He celebrated not only having won the Presidency for the second time and with more than 85% of the votes, but he also said having won in the new Legislative Assembly“with 58 out of 60 deputies.”
This process was marked by strong criticism, since Bukele’s detractors consider that a new mandate for the president is unconstitutional, alleging that the Magna Carta prohibits it. Specifically, article 154 of the Constitution states that “the presidential period will be five years and will begin and end on the first day of June, without the person who has exercised the Presidency being able to continue in his or her functions for even a single period.” “one more day.” However, in 2021 the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) endorsed the immediate presidential re-election.
Without voting
On the other hand, the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodolfo Delgado, denounced that received reports that, by order of Indra, the company that is in charge of the logistics of voting abroad, voting was not allowed to continue following the closing time of the polls for people who were in row from before.
This was confirmed by the TSE, which noted that Indra had stated that some owners of properties where the vote was taking place, “They did not want to extend the lease contracts”.
Given this, the TSE committed to carrying out the necessary planning for Indra to guarantee the implementation of the in-person electronic voting system for those citizens who were not able to vote on Sunday.
“The technical planning and its corresponding development will be communicated as soon as possible,” says the statement from the electoral body.
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