Nayib Bukele poised to secure unprecedented re-election in El Salvador

By Breaking Belize News Staff: President Nayib Bukele is poised to secure re-election in El Salvador as polls closed on Sunday.

Bukele declared himself winner of El Salvador’s national elections in a landslide, claiming he captured more than 85% of the vote ahead of official results.

Bukele was the heavy favourite to win another five-year term as voters largely cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that improved security in the Central American country.

But the mass arrests – El Salvador now has the world’s highest incarceration rate – have also triggered outcry from human rights groups, who allege Bukele’s government has detained innocent people and subjected prisoners to dehumanizing conditions behind bars, including torture.

Bukele now appears poised to become the first Salvadoran president in almost a century to be re-elected.

Wildly popular, Bukele has campaigned on the success of his security strategy under which authorities suspended civil liberties to arrest more than 75,000 Salvadorans without charges. The detentions led to a sharp decline in nationwide murder rates and transformed a country of 6.3 million people that was once among the world’s most dangerous.

 

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