Nayib Bukele strengthens his power after taking the …

Allied parties of President Nayib Bukele became the big winners in Sunday’s legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador. New Ideas Evening (NI), which Bukele helped form and was contesting an election for the first time, with the Grand National Alliance (GANA), who brought him to power in 2019, together they achieve over 60% of the votes in Parliament, with 87 percent of the preliminary examination issued by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Far away were the Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN). With these results, Bukele will have much more power over the different Salvadoran powers.

The agent it didn’t take long to celebrate the victory. “We are all tired, but there is little left. Our people waited 40 years for this. Let us reflect on what we have achieved and check that each act reflects the will of the people expressed at the ballot box. We write the history of our country“, He assured this Monday in his Twitter account.

Aged 39, Bukele fiercely criticizes traditional parties and accuses them of having done nothing for the people or for the victims of the civil war (1980-1992), to the point of calling into question the peace agreements, a founding milestone of current democracy for the rest of the spectrum of Salvadoran parties and the international community.

After a campaign which focused on the fight against citizen insecurity and gang actionsOn Sunday, Bukele called for the finalization of the “auction operation” against his opponents. Thanks to legislative oversight, Bukele will now be able to influence appointments to the Supreme Court of Justice, the Comptroller’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office., and even promote constitutional reforms.

In one of his usual contacts with Parliament, On February 9, 2020, the President was accompanied by heavily armed soldiers and police to enter the Legislative Assembly, amid the refusal of members of Congress to approve a loan to equip the security forces.

“A very complicated crisis scenario awaits us which cannot be dealt with effectively if there is no agreement,” said independent researcher for UN organizations, Jannet Aguilar. For his part, the researcher from the University of Central America, José María Tojeira, assured that the pandemic had helped Bukele “to maintain the prestige with which he had succeeded in joining the government in 2019”.

For the analyst, delivering a $ 300 voucher to families in need, bags of food and home delivery of supplies to deal with covid-19 generated empathy with a population who saw their economic situation worsen by the pandemic, in a country where the external debt reaches 90% of the GDP.