Former mayor of the former capital of El Salvador Nayep Pocelli on Sunday won the presidential election in the Central American country, becoming the sixth president since 1992, the end of the 12-year civil war.

"At this moment, we can state with absolute certainty that we won the presidency," Boukili, 37, of Palestinian origin, told reporters last night.

Pocelli's victory - the youngest president of El Salvador - could end decades of bipartisan dominance of politics in the country. Bocelli benefited from resentment at the institutions that hold elections in the region. Voters are seeking an alternative to traditional parties.

Only two parties have been in power since the end of the bloody civil war in 1992: the ruling leftist FMLN Party and its conservative rival, the National Republican Alliance.

Bocelli, who ran under the banner of the Conservative Party, the "Great Alliance for Unity," won 52.93% of the vote (Anatolia)

Win and approve
Bocelli, who ran under the banner of the conservative party "The Great Alliance for Unity", won 52.93 percent of the vote, compared to 32.08 for his direct rival, the wealthy businessman candidate Carlos Cayja of the National Republican Alliance, Of the ballot papers.

Both Kayeja and the left-wing ruling party, the FMLN, have approved former Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez, who was third with 14.23 percent.

"We recognize the results of these elections. We will call the president-elect to wish him good luck in facing updates in this country," said Kayeja, 42.

Candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Party admitted defeat (Anatolia)

Alliance and challenge
Buckley will rule for a five-year non-renewable term and will have to build an alliance with the right-wing party, the majority in parliament, to rule until the next legislative elections in at least 2021.

The first challenge to the president-elect will be the violence of criminal gangs, which killed 3,340 people in the country last year.

El Salvador has a murder rate of 51 per 100,000 inhabitants and is one of the countries with the highest levels of violence outside the conflict.

Some 54,000 active gangs continue to terrorize a country where they are extorting, smuggling drugs and killing.

The former leftist and rightist governments resorted to various means of repression and negotiated with criminal gangs, but were unable to eradicate them.

Boukili, the beloved mayor of the capital, pledged during his election campaign to increase investment in education and fight corruption, but his main task would be to implement new programs to enhance security.