Bukele's party gets 54 of the 60 representatives in Congress

San Salvador.- The ruling party in El Salvador New Ideas (NI)Led by the President Nayeb Bukele He obtained an absolute majority by being able to hold 54 of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly, according to the results presented by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).

The Electoral Commission, which on Monday completed the audit of the elections that took place on February 4, indicated that parties allied with the National Alliance would occupy three seats, as the National Accord Party obtained two deputies, and the Christian Democratic Party obtained two seats. One.

With 54 deputies from the Nuevas Ideas party, without the need for 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 -, so the president will rule without obstacles.

New ideas will not have to negotiate with anyone. He may approve the state’s general budget, international loans, authorize the issuance of debts, approve exceptional regulations, and elect the Public Prosecutor, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Court of Accounts, and the human rights defense lawyer.

The opposition has only three representatives. The National Republican Alliance (Arena) won two seats (as it had in the previous legislature), while the Vamos party won one seat. The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the party where Bukele jumped into politics and which ruled between 2009 and 2019, had no presence in the assembly.

In addition, the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), the formation with which the current president assumed the presidency in 2019 and which had five seats, will not be present in the Council either, like Nuestro Tiempo and Cambio Democrático, which are in Parliament. The last legislature they had no representation.

“We reject any sign of intolerance in the scrutiny of the presence of OAS monitoring, and we emphasize that this process involved a total of 3,770 national and international monitors,” said TSE President Dora Esmeralda. .

Likewise, he stated that, “as the highest authority,” they were “committed to the full participation of national and international monitoring,” and emphasized that “every vote was counted in a transparent manner, in full compliance with the will of the Salvadoran.” “The people who expressed them at 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 The Legislative Council requested that it be repeated, due to alleged irregularities in the process.

Claudia Ortiz, representative of Vamos, declared that “as long as the elections are not repeated, it will never be possible to know with certainty what result people wanted to reflect at the ballot box.” The principle of “do not falsify the popular will,” so the request for annulment “is the right thing” after scrutiny.”

Anomalies

The head of the Nuestro Tiempo Party, Andy Weiler, pointed out that 69 anomalies were recorded in the electoral process, even before the opening of the ballot boxes and until the completion of the vote counting. “We have documented each of them and are supported by due evidence,” he stressed.

The OAS election observation mission, deployed to El Salvador on the occasion of the presidential and legislative elections on February 4, expressed concern this weekend about the “delay and asymmetry” in the final elections. Auditing.

For his part, Bukele won the elections with more than 80% of the votes (2.7 million votes), exceeding the results he obtained in the 2019 elections. Consequently, the rest of the candidates came in with a large margin.

In March 2022, the Salvadoran President imposed a state of emergency that has continued since then, with no signs of ending. The success of its security strategy results in about 74,000 detainees, the dismantling of gangs and homicide rates among the lowest in Latin America through the suspension of basic rights, such as expression and organization.

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fountain: With information from Europa Press