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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday.

The announcement comes after a painstaking vote counting process, which has raised the hackles of electoral watchdogs and the country’s weak opposition, who cite irregularities.

Bukele handily won re-election Feb. 4 with 84.7% of the vote. What had remained up in the air was if Bukele’s New Ideas party would be equally as successful in legislative elections. On Monday, officials announced that New Ideas won 54 seats of the 60 congressional seats. Allied parties won an additional three seats.

Despite not having the final results, the leader had already declared victory in the presidency and in the congress the night of the election, saying “El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world.”

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[-] EstT@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting, didn't know about that. Do you have any credible sources / videos?

[-] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I only remember a segment on Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/AqyHzePx3ew?t=440. It must have been an article instead (EDIT: This one: El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ boasts country would be ‘a one-party system’ after election win)

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But they also reported on the "civil war" where many poor people seem to have been unjustly arrested: https://youtu.be/A4Cw0KtkzWg https://youtu.be/fvDFFRA6HmI.

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