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At 7 a.m. local time on February 4, the first round of voting in El Salvador officially began, and voters will elect a new ** and deputy **, and the incumbent**Bukele will seek re-election. On the same day, voters will also elect 60 members of the National Assembly.
There are more than 6.2 million registered voters in El Salvador, and voters living in the country go to the polling places to vote, which will close at 5 p.m. on the same day; Voters living abroad can vote online, which was previously launched on January 6 and will be closed at 5 p.m. local time in El Salvador on the 4th.
In addition to the candidate of the "New Ideas" party and the incumbent Nayib Bukele, there are also Joel Sánchez, the candidate of the "Nationalist Republican Alliance", and Manuel Flores, the candidate of the "Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front". According to previous polls, Bukele's approval rating is over 80 percent.
El Salvadoran law stipulates that any candidate who receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round can be elected. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes will compete in the second round on March 3, with the winner of the most votes. El Salvador will also hold mayoral and municipal council elections. (Reporter Gong Xiangcheng Ma Tianjing).