MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- San Salvador news: Nayib Bukele, the candidate of the coalition representing the Salvadoran New Ideas party, announced on the evening of February 4 that he had won the ** election held in the country.
Bukele said that according to preliminary statistics obtained within the coalition, he has won more than 85 percent of the votes in the ** election as a candidate for the coalition, and that the coalition represented by the New Ideas party has won at least 58 of the 60 seats in the National Assembly.
Previous polls showed that Bukele had more than 70 percent support, while all other candidates had less than 10 percent. El Salvadoran law stipulates that a candidate who receives more than 50% of the votes will be directly elected; If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, the two leading candidates will advance to the second round.
Voting in El Salvador** began on the morning of the 4th and ended at 17 o'clock local time. Voters will elect a new ** and deputy **, as well as 60 members of the National Assembly.
There are 6 candidates in this ** election. According to the relevant regulations, the candidate of the New Thought Party's election coalition and the incumbent Bukele was approved by the National Assembly to temporarily leave his post in December last year in order to participate in the new ** election. Other candidates include Manuel Flores, the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, and the candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance, Joel Sánchez, among others.
El Salvador** is the Head of State and Head of State, who is directly elected for a five-year term. The new ** will take office on June 1 this year. (ENDS).