Salvadoran President Bukele to Seek Re-Election on Sunday

January 31, 2024 Hour: 12:57 pm

On Sunday, over five million Salvadorans will go to the polls to elect their next president from six candidates.

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The politicians who aspire to govern this country for the next five years are the current President Nayib Bukele (New Ideas Party), Manuel Flores (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), Joel Sanchez (Nationalist Republican Alliance), Jose Renderos (Solidarity Force ), Luis Parada (Our Time), and Marina Murillo (Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity).

Currently, Bukele captures 70.9 percent of electoral preference, according to a voting intention survey recently carried out by the Observa El Salvador consortium.

This happens even though he has been criticized for the permanent extension of the “State of Exception”, a measure aimed at ending gang-related violence in this Central American country.

El Salvador getting rid of expensive tombs of gang members.

The authorities believe they glorify a criminal lifestyle.

President Bukele has launched a nation-wide campaign against gang membership and gang violence. pic.twitter.com/glNBj5PIpG

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December 7, 2022

Carried out through a voting simulation with 1,904 ballots, the Observa El Salvador survey also indicates that the other candidates are well below Bukele: Flores (2.9 percent), Sanchez (2.7 percent), Parada (1.1 percent), and Murillo (0.6 percent).

The political campaign that began on October 3, 2023 will end on Wednesday night. Starting tomorrow, political organizations must maintain electoral silence so that Salvadorans reflect on their voting intention.

According to the latest opinion polls, 32.8 percent of citizens consider that their main concern is the economic situation in El Salvador, a country where unemployment reaches 17.3 percent of the economically active population.

#FromTheSouth News Bits | A total of 82 attacks against journalists, while carrying out their work, have been recorded by the monitoring center of the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES), since the state of emergency began on March 27, 2022, until December 31, 2023. pic.twitter.com/NRBjvMJBKF

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January 16, 2024