President Nayib Bukele on Sunday secured a thumping victory in El Salvador’s elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that transformed security in the Central American country.
Provisional results on Monday show Bukele winning eighty-three percent support with just over seventy percent of the ballots counted.
Thousands of Bukele’s supporters clad in cyan blue and waving flags thronged San Salvador’s central square to celebrate his re-election, which the 42-year-old leader termed a “referendum” on his government.
His New Ideas party is expected to win almost all of the sixty seats in the legislative body, tightening its grip on the country and bestowing even more sway on Bukele.
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