SAN SALVADOR.- The ruling party of El Salvador, New Ideas (NI)led by the President Nayib Bukele According to the results of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), it gained an absolute majority, occupying 54 of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly.
The electoral authority, which completed this Monday the verification process for the elections held on February 4, indicated that the parties allied with NI will occupy three seats, as the National Concertation Party (PNC) has two deputies and the Christian Democrats (PDC) two MPs received one.
With Nuevas Ideas' 54 deputies and without the votes of its allies, Bukele's party will have a simple majority – half plus one, 31 – and two qualified majorities – two-thirds, 40 and three-quarters, 45. The president will govern without obstacles .
New ideas don’t have to be negotiated with anyone. It can approve the nation's general budget and international loans, authorize the issuance of debt instruments, approve exemptions, elect the Attorney General, the Supreme Court, the Court of Auditors and the Advocate for the Defense of Human Rights.
The opposition only has three MPs. The Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) received two seats (as in the previous legislature), while the Vamos party received one seat. The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a party in which Bukele entered politics and which governed between 2009 and 2019, had no presence in the assembly.
In addition, the Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA), a formation with which the current president reached the presidency in 2019 and which had five seats, will not be represented in the chamber, nor will Nuestro Tiempo and Cambio Democrático, which are in the In They were not represented in the last legislative period.
“We reject any sign of intolerance in the verification of the presence of observers from the Organization of American States and reiterate that a total of 3,770 national and international observers took part in this process,” stated the President of the TSE, Dora Esmeralda.
Likewise, he declared that “as the highest authority” they were “committed to the full participation of national and international observation” and reiterated that “every vote was counted in a transparent manner and in total respect of the will of Salvadorans.” People who expressed themselves in the ballot box.”
During the day this Monday, The parties ARENA, Vamos and Nuestro Tiempo submitted an appeal to the TSE to annul the elections legislation and called for its repetition due to alleged irregularities in the process.
“Unless an election is repeated, it will never be possible to know with certainty what result the people wanted to be reflected at the ballot box,” explained Claudia Ortiz, a representative of Vamos, who explained that in these elections the “The principle “Don’t distort the will of the people,” so after review, it was “the right thing” to demand an annulment.
Anomalies
The president of Nuestro Tiempo, Andy Failer, stated that even before the opening of the polls until the counting of the ballots was completed, 69 anomalies had been detected in the electoral process. “We have documented every single case and there is relevant evidence,” he explained.
The Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) Election Observation Mission, deployed for the February 4 presidential and legislative elections in El Salvador, expressed concern this weekend about “the delay and lack of uniformity” in the final examination.
For his part, Bukele won the elections with more than 80% of the vote (2.7 million ballots), surpassing the results of the 2019 elections. This left the other candidates far behind.
In March 2022, the Salvadoran President declared a state of emergency, which has continued since then with no signs of ending. The success of his security strategy results in around 74,000 incarceration, the dissolution of gangs and one of the lowest murder rates in Latin America through the removal of basic rights such as expression and organization.
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SPRING: With information from Europa Press