The electoral body took five days to complete the total count of the votes cast in the presidential elections on February 4.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of El Salvador concluded this Friday the counting of all the votes cast in the last presidential elections and made official the victory of the current president, Nayib Bukele, now re-elected for a second termwith 84.65% approval.
The already controversial vote, to which 6.2 million people were summoned to participate, also added controversies and tensions as a result of the delay in the counting, which was carried out manually by the TSE, and due to alleged irregularities and violations of electoral regulations, which were denounced by Bukele.
With all the votes reviewed, the electoral body announced that the ruling party Nuevas Ideas obtained 2,701,725 million votes (84.65%). In second position was former deputy Manuel Flores, from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), with 204,167 votes (6.40%), followed by businessman Joel Sánchez, from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), with 177,881 ballots. in their favor (5.57%).
In this way, Bukele becomes the most voted candidate in the history of El Salvador and will hold the position until 2029 despite the fact that the opposition sector maintains complaints that the election was unconstitutional, because the Constitution of that Central American country prohibits the immediate re-election of a leader.
For his part, the president thanked God and the Salvadoran people for his victory on his social networks.
The issue of Bukele’s candidacy for immediate re-election was full of controversies. However, the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which was renewed by the Legislative Assembly and which is controlled by the ruling party, in September 2021 issued a ruling so that the president might aspire to the presidential seat once more.
The only condition for re-election was not to exercise power six months before the elections, which the leader complied with. So that Bukele, 42, might participate in the elections, the Parliament of the Central American country granted in December a special license for one semester to the president and, in his place, named Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara as “presidential appointee.”
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