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Salvadorans voted Sunday (3) in a climate of tranquility to elect a new president. The former mayor of the capital, Nayib Bukele, was elected a favorite, confronted with the weariness of traditional parties and the persistence of gang violence
While he was in the electoral sections of San Salvador, the wealth was close to 50% and there remained two hours until the closing of the vote.
After the closing of the sections, the members of the meetings having received the votes opened the investigation. (19659004) In a brief statement to the press in a hotel in San Salvador, Bukele said, without revealing any figures, that his first polls badysis indicates that his candidacy is "in large numbers" and that he hopes " that there is no second round [des élections] we all want to save the country this second round ".
V with blue, red or tricolor t-shirts of disputed parties, hundreds of voters lined up to enter polling stations from different parts of the capital.
President Salvador Sánchez Cerén told the press that "
In fact, few incidents have been recorded by the authorities.
The Minister of Justice and Security, Mauricio Ramírez, told the press that while only six people were arrested for attempted electoral fraud and other crimes.
Just over 5.2 million voters were called to vote in 1,600 sections. President of the TSE, the results should be announced later in the evening.
"We came to vote with confidence, saying that there was a change", Aracely Bonilla, went to the parish school from San Agustín to Mejicanos, Carlos Iturgaiz, head of the Election Observation Mission of the European Union, said that, "with the least possible delay for organizational reasons", the the process takes place in a climate of tranquility.
the sixth presidential election since the end of the civil war that lasted 12 years in 1992, by signing peace agreements between the government and the guerrillas.
Polls show favorite Bukele, 37, candidate of the Great Conservative Alliance for (Ghana), followed by supermarket director Carlos Calleja (42), a coalition of four right-wing parties led by the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena).
(19659015) The ruling party, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, formerly FMLN), is also participating in Sunday's conflict. Left Guerrilla), which includes former Chancellor Hugo Martinez, third in polls, and businessman Josué Alvarado, of the Vamos minority party, with little chance.
If no candidate gets half a plus one vote, he will get a second round on March 10th.
Repeating the slogan "The people will never be defeated", candidate Martínez voted in a public school in the west of the capital, while Calleja made it to the International Fair, where his supporters shouted "President of Calleja"
– Insecurity, a priority –
Whoever wins this election will have to face the old problem of violent gangs that extort the population and the out-of-town populations [19659002] "The new president must present bold solutions to the problem of security," he told AFP, badyst and professor at
In the past , the right-wing governments had bet on repression or negotiated in secret with the gangs
The left, for its part, with the former president Mauricio Funes (2009-2014), encouraged a truce between the two principal gangs that has temporarily reduced the hom icides.
Every year, thousands of Salvadorans leave the country because of violence and
– The future president also
Between the other and the month of November of the year last, more than 3,000 Salvadorans left the country in caravans with the intention of arriving in the United States. (19659027) "The fragility of the Salvadoran economy is linked to the reforms implemented after the war (1980-1992).)
The UCA recalled that the right-wing governments had implemented a tax reform reducing the income tax and creating value-added tax (13.5 percent), have sold state-owned banks, privatized companies and eased the economy to "speed up growth on the free market "
According to the university," the only success of this model has been the concentration of wealth in a few hands "and the country is suffering the consequences" of violence, displacement, forced migration and maras [gangues] which are a by-product of the model implemented. "
" El Salvador needs more sources of work and more security ", asked Sunday Daniel Morales, student at the university for 24 years, about to vote.
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