Former Mayor Nayib Bukele has been proclaimed Elected President of El Salvador

The former popular mayor Nayib Bukele was proclaimed Sunday night president of the parliament elected in the first round, in a result that breaks with the bipartisanship of right and left that has ruled the country in recent decades.

"At this moment we can announce with certainty that we have won the presidency"Bukele told his followers.

Right-wing candidate Calleja and leftist Hugo Martinez, third in the polls, recognized Bukele's triumph.

Bukele led the recount of votes from El Salvador's elections today, where more than 41 percent had been counted.

Bukele recorded 1,163,168 votes, followed by Carlos Calleja, of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), with 690,219, and Hugo Martínez, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) government, with 303,371 votes , according to data from the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE).

According to various badysts, the trend is irreversible, but the question was whether Salvadorians should go to the second round.

"Two hours ago, we had results that indicated a clear trend and we were tempted to give these results, but we decided to wait for an irreversible result At 8:10 we had an irreversible result", he said.

Bukele, expelled from the FMLN in 2017, participated in the elections with Martínez, the FMLN leader; Calleja de Arena and with Josué Alvarado, of the Vamos party, recently founded.

These elections, which were convened by more than 5.2 million people with the right to vote, is the sixth held in El Salvador since the end of the civil war (1980-1992), which has given way to three governments. consecutive votes of Parliament. the right-wing Arena, followed by two FMLN members, left-wing parties, currently in power.