San Salvador, February 4 (RHC)-- In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele was elected president on Sunday, defeating his opponents from the two main parties that have dominated the country’s political scene for over 25 years.
Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of San Salvador beat out candidates from the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance and the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation, the FMLN.
Bukele, who joined the conservative Grand Alliance for National Unity, or GANA, after leaving the FMLN in 2017, ran on an anti-corruption platform and garnered 53 percent of the vote.
Nayib Bukele elected president of El Salvador
Related Articles
Commentaries
MAKE A COMMENT
All fields requiredMore Views
- Venezuelan president highlights the historical struggle of Latin American peoples against global fascism
- Protesters in Poland demand Netanyahu's arrest, warning of an act of complicity with war crimes in Gaza
- ITU World Youth Summit to be held in Cuba
- Prime minister says Greenland does not want to be American or Danish
- Cuba falls to Croatian club on the way to Handball World Cup