EL SALVADOR: Nayib Bukele wins presidential election in the first round

CENTRAL AMERICA - Report 06 Feb 2019 by Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez and Felix Delgado

As we have been updating in previous reports, presidential election in El Salvador took place last Sunday February 3rd, 2019. By Monday the Electoral Court announced Nayib Bukele as the winner by an ample majority of 53% of valid votes. His two main contenders came from the two political parties that have alternated in power during the last 27 years: Carlos Calleja from the coalition of ARENA with three other small parties, called Alliance for a New Country, with 32% of the votes, and Hugo Martinez from the official FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), with 14% of the votes.

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