The gang-busting President Nayib Bukele claimed to have won reelection with more than 85 percent of votes cast: “a record in the entire democratic history of the world.”
Exit poll data show Nayib Bukele’s Nueva (New) Ideas party holding 87% of votes, while official numbers are expected to come in shortly.
Bukele, 42, polls as Latin America’s most popular leader, possibly the world, on the back of a war on gangs that has slashed homicide rates in the violence-weary country.
Bukele, who leads the “Nueva (New) Ideas” party, reposted an X post from CID Gallup on Feb. 5, showing him his party holding 87% of votes, while his closest competitors Manuel Flores and Joel Sanchez hold 7% and 4% of the votes, respectively.
In an X post, Bukele said his own party’s data shows he has won the election with more than 85% of the votes and a minimum of 58 out of 60 deputies in the assembly.
