Nayib Bukele, the 42-year-old president of El Salvador, received reelection in a landslide, and boasted that the Central American nation had established a one-party system through democratic means.
“The complete opposition has been crushed,” he declared Sunday night time.
The vote tally was suffering from web outages and different irregularities; authorities lastly resorted to guide counting. With 70 p.c of polling stations reporting, Bukele had about 1.6 million votes — greater than 10 instances as many as his nearest rival, leftist Manuel Flores. An exit ballot by CID Gallup discovered Bukele had received about 87 p.c of the vote.