On February 19, 2024 local time, the Supreme Electoral Council of El Salvador announced the results of the manual recount of votes in the parliamentary elections that accompanied the ** election on the 4th of this month, and the results showed that the ruling party "New Ideas" party of El Salvador won 54 seats out of 60 seats, and it was an indisputable "big victory".
A few days after the elections, the Supreme Electoral Council of El Salvador received reports of irregularities, power and network outages during the period, and immediately announced that the results of the parliamentary elections had been manually recounted due to a failure in the voting system.
The "New Ideas Party" is the centrist party in the country and is the ruling party of El Salvador. Founded in 2018 by the incumbent Bukele (Bukele), the party advocates a "new middle way" against corruption, privilege and exclusivity, and advocates intra-party democracy and pluralistic symbiosis. Bukele himself was re-elected with more than 85% of the vote on the 4th of this month**, and he is known for his heavy-handed crackdown on gang crime and pushing parliament to pass a bill confirming Bitcoin as the country's official currency.
The victory of Bukele's New Ideas party in parliament may make it easier for the self-proclaimed "world's coolest dictator" to continue his "iron-fisted policies" in his new term.
In addition to the "New Ideas" party, which won a big victory in this parliamentary election, the other six seats in parliament were won by four parties, including the Nationalist Republican Alliance and the ** Church Democratic Party.