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Nayib Bukele won on Sunday (3) the Salvadoran presidential election with more than 53% of the vote, with 87.6% of the votes cast, a "definitive" and "irreversible" trend, according to the president of the Electoral Superior Court (TSE) of El Salvador, Julio Oliveira.
Oliveira said that Bukele, right-wing candidate for the Grand Alliance for the National Union (Ghana), had 1,254,207 votes (53.78%); followed by Carlos Calleja of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), with 737,412 votes (31.62%); and Hugo Martinez of the ruling party, the ruling National Liberation Front (FMLN), Farabundo Martí, was relegated to third place with 321,274 votes (13.77%).
"We can announce with certainty that we have won the presidency of the Republic … it's a historic moment, we won the first round and we have more votes than the FMLN and Arena", Bukele said at a brief press conference in a Salvadoran capital hotel.
Bukele, a 37-year-old advertising entrepreneur, thanked all the Salvadorans who voted for him and badured that "with this triumph", "we turned to the page of the post-war and won unanimously 14 Salvadoran votes "departments (provinces)" of the country.
The current vice president of El Salvador, Oscar Ortiz, recognized the victory of Bukele in the presidential elections and congratulated him for the conquest.
"We are writing today a new page in the history of our country, congratulations to Nayib Bukele," said Ortiz in his social networks, underlining that the government was ready for "a successful transition."
Ortiz is the first representative of the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén to publicly acknowledge the triumph of Bukele, who was expelled from the FMLN in 2017.
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