Salvadorans go to the polls to elect lawmakers and mayors

San Salvador, February 28 (RHC)-- Voters are going to the polls in El Salvador on Sunday, electing a new Congress, 262 mayors of the country and a score of deputies of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), an institution dedicated to regional integration.

At the inauguration of the electoral process, the magistrate president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Dora Esmeralda Martínez, invited citizens to cast their vote during the next 10 hours that the voting centers will be open, and also recommended that only the people who will vote go to the polls, to limit the number of people gathered during the pandemic. 

During a national broadcast at 7 a.m., Martinez inaugurated the opening of the polling stations installed in the Central American country. 

A total of 5,389,017 Salvadorans are eligible to cast their ballots and their data appear on the electoral roll. 

The elections will become the first where the use of support technology at the polling station was allowed, that is to say, each Voting Reception Board (JRV) will have at its disposal a laptop that has installed the system that automates the counting of marks and preferences that the voters write on the ballots.

The Tribunal set up 1,595 voting centers and 8,451 JRVs, in each JRV a maximum of 700 people may vote.