El Salvador confirms Bukele’s supermajority after opposition calls to void election results
San Salvador, El Salvador Reuters El Salvador’s election authority on Monday announced that President Nayib Bukele’s ruling New Ideas party would control a super majority in the next legislature with 54 out of 60 seats, following a hand count of votes. Opposition parties earlier on Monday had asked the body to void the results of […]
El Salvador President Bukele poised for a landslide as voters cast ballots
San Salvador, El Salvador Reuters Salvadorans voted on Sunday in elections expected to hand President Nayib Bukele another landslide victory, with many happy to overlook the young leader’s authoritarian drift after he crushed gang violence that had paralysed life in the poor Central American country. Bukele, 42, appears poised to become the first Salvadoran President […]