Salvadorans voted this Sunday in elections for president, vice president and all 60 seats in the country’s unicameral legislature.
As was widely expected, Nayib Bukele, the president since 2019, said he had won in a landslide victory.
In a post on the social media site X, Bukele said he had won more than 85% of votes, saying it was a “record in the entire democratic history of the world.”
The win was expected despite a constitutional ban on presidents serving consecutive terms. Bukele said his party, Nuevas Ideas, had taken at least 58 of the Legislative Assembly’s seats.
Bukele, 42, is incredibly popular in El Salvador. He’s perhaps best known for his brutal crackdown on the country’s violent and powerful gangs that had dominated public life.
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