Najib Bukele speaks from the balcony of the National Palace in San Salvador, with his wife Gabriela Rodriguez de Bukele (European) next to him.
Salvadoran President Najib Bukele, of Palestinian origin, announced his victory for a second presidential term after obtaining more than 85% of the votes on Sunday, thus becoming the first president of El Salvador to be elected for a second term of 5 years in nearly 100 years.
Abu Kaila (42 years old) wrote on the X platform, “According to our numbers, we won the presidential elections with more than 85% of the votes,” adding that his “New Ideas” party also won at least 58 seats in the 60-seat Legislative Council, and it was launched. After that, fireworks in the capital, San Salvador, celebrated his victory.
Voters in El Salvador cast their votes yesterday, Sunday, in the presidential elections, amid expectations that he would achieve a landslide victory, against his five other competitors, including politicians from the former left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, and the National Republican Alliance Party, which is a right-wing nationalist.
Bukele, who is very popular, capitalized during his election campaign on the success of his security strategy, under which the authorities suspended civil liberties and arrested more than 75,000 Salvadorans without bringing charges against them.
Those arrests led to a sharp decline in homicide rates nationwide and transformed a country with a population of 6.3 million that was once among the most dangerous countries in the world. But some analysts said mass incarceration of 1% of the population is not a sustainable strategy.
Opinion polls that accompanied the elections showed that most voters were ready to reward Bukele for his success in eliminating the criminal groups that made life unbearable in El Salvador and fueled waves of immigration to the United States.
Bukele came to power in 2019, defeating traditional parties after pledging to eliminate gang violence and revitalize the stagnant economy.
Source: Agencies