{"id":15152,"date":"2024-02-06T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/el-salvadors-nayib-bukele-set-for-landslide-election-victory\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:46:42","slug":"el-salvadors-nayib-bukele-set-for-landslide-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/el-salvadors-nayib-bukele-set-for-landslide-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador\u2019s Nayib Bukele set for landslide election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El Salvador\u2019s Nayib Bukele is headed for what appears to be a landslide victory in the presidential election, with more than 70% of the votes counted as of Monday, according to preliminary results from the country\u2019s Supreme\u00a0Electoral Court (TSE). <\/p>\n

His party is enjoying a wide lead over the opposition. Preliminary results showed Bukele\u2019s Nueva Ideas securing 1,662,313 votes compared to runner-up FMLN\u2019s 139,025 votes as of Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n

The results were widely expected in a country where Bukele enjoys immense popularity over a crackdown on gangs that drove down El Salvador\u2019s once-sky-high levels of violence. <\/p>\n

Bukele had already declared himself the winner in the race late Sunday, saying: \u201cToday,\u00a0El\u00a0Salvador\u00a0has broken all the records of all the democracies in the world. Since democracies have existed, never has a project won with the quantity of votes that we have won today.\u201d <\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, the federal election authority said it asked polling stations across the country to manually record the results of Sunday\u2019s presidential election after electronic transmission of results stopped updating overnight. <\/p>\n

The court said it took its decision based on the country\u2019s electoral code and after actions that \u201chindered\u201d the transmission of primary results and \u201cother factors beyond the control of the (court),\u201d without elaborating further. <\/p>\n

Polling stations are now manually report voting records, with both election officials and party representatives taking \u201cphotographic or scanned evidence\u201d of the records before sending them to the court. <\/p>\n

Bukele, 42, faced little in the way of organized opposition and enjoys one of the highest favorability ratings in the region, regularly polling above 70% in independent surveys. <\/p>\n

His supporters laud Bukele\u2019s crackdown on criminal gangs under an extended state of emergency that reversed the country\u2019s murder rate, once the highest in the world. <\/p>\n

However, mass arrests have also triggered outcry from human rights groups, who allege Bukele\u2019s government has detained innocent people and subjected prisoners to dehumanizing conditions behind bars, including torture. El Salvador now has the world\u2019s highest incarceration rate. <\/p>\n

The debate between the two sides has elevated an election in a small Central American state into a broader referendum on the extent that voters are willing to relinquish basic liberties in exchange for relative peace and safety. <\/p>\n

An overwhelming win for Bukele would likely give the young leader more leeway to reform El Salvador in his heavy-handed vision. Bukele has not shied away from comparisons to autocrats \u2013 once setting his Twitter biography to read \u201cworld\u2019s coolest dictator\u201d \u2013 and his government has said they are \u201celiminating\u201d democracy in the country. <\/p>\n

Bukele\u2019s ability to run for a second term is a clear example of the effort: with El Salvador\u2019s constitution barring presidents from seeking re-election, the country\u2019s Congress in 2021 replaced the top judges on the Supreme Court with a new class willing to grant him the power. Bukele stepped down from the presidency late last year to focus on his reelection. He is set to be sworn in for his second term in June. <\/p>\n

In at least 13 countries in Latin America, most of the population \u201cwouldn\u2019t mind an undemocratic government rising to power if it resolved problems,\u201d\u00a0according to a 2023 poll by Latinobarometro. <\/p>\n

Still, under Bukele, the country\u2019s economy has stagnated, with low growth rates and an unmet demand for jobs. Foreign direct investment in the country has also not risen in line with the country\u2019s newfound security, with polls indicating that companies are reluctant to invest in El Salvador given the \u201cdecreasing legal certainty\u201d and autocratic lurch in the government, Freeman said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s notable Bukele said nothing about the economy in his victory speech, and very little about the economy on the campaign trail, probably because it\u2019s a very weak issue for him,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n

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El Salvador\u2019s Nayib Bukele is headed for what appears to be a landslide victory in the presidential election, with more than 70% of the votes counted as of Monday, according to preliminary results from the country\u2019s Supreme\u00a0Electoral Court (TSE). His party is enjoying a wide lead over the opposition. Preliminary results showed Bukele\u2019s Nueva Ideas <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}