The new president of El Salvador is a young enemy of corruption

The outrage provoked by political corruption was decisive for Salvadorians to elect as president the young businessman Nayib Bukele, who was running for a right-wing party. With a campaign based on the fight against corruption, Bukelele concluded with the historical bipartisanship of El Salvador. He obtained 53.7% of the vote while Carlos Calleja, candidate of a block of four conservative parties at the head of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), ranked second with 31.6%. Former FMLN Chancellor Martinez, party left, got only 13.7%. The FMLN lost the presidency during these elections.

But to govern and keep its election promises, Bukele will need the support not only of social forces, but also of the traditional political parties that dominate the Legislative Assembly. Bukele is from the private sector and is known to be the importer of Yamaha motorcycles.

At just 37, he will have to start filling his strong campaign map, creating an International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador to end alarming rampant corruption. Bukele, who represented the right-wing party, the Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA), said that in recent years, some $ 1,500 million has been stolen from the treasury. He also promised to build four new hospitals, an airport in the east of the country and a railway that will cross the entire coastal zone. extend a tax on unused farmland and apply a differentiated value-added tax, which is higher for luxury goods and lower or except for basic basket and drugs.

"This new government will be weak because it has no legislative backing," said Alvaro Artiga, a professor at José Simeón Cañas University. The new administration "will be in an even more complicated situation" than the current left-wing government of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN), which has 23 deputies.

If Bukele continues his alliance with the GANA, he will only have 10 deputies, plus one from the party of democratic change. To pbad a law, you need 43 of the 84 MPs in the legislature. The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) has 37 deputies, its allies of the National Concert Party have nine and the Christian Democracy three, enough to control Parliament.

Artiga said that Bukele would have to show that he was different "from the same old" and build a cabinet "that is not friends, relatives, all that has been accused to the same of always and that". he can not repeat, because people have voted in terms of rejection. "Bukele began his political career by brandishing the red flag of the former guerrillas, but he was constantly expelled by the FMLN leadership and expelled from it. In the last 30 years, it's Bukele who took power. "It's the resentment of the urban middle clbad with the elites of the country, it was the theme, it's never that the candidate is better, more honest, healthier, more capable" . "It is obvious that the candidate (of Sand) Carlos Calleja was better, but it was not for that".