US Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, on Monday for his re-election and stressed the importance of respecting human rights and judicial guarantees.
“I congratulate Nayib Bukele on his electoral victory as president of El Salvador. The United States praises the work of the electoral observers and looks forward to working with the president-elect,” said the head of US diplomacy.
Blinken noted that the United States' priorities in the relationship with El Salvador will be “good governance, economic prosperity, guarantees of fair trials and human rights.”
The United States, he said, values the “strong relationship” maintained with the people of El Salvador, “forged over 160 years on shared values, regional ties and family connections.”
“The events in El Salvador have a direct impact on US interests inside and outside the country. Only by working together can we reach our full potential and overcome the greatest obstacles in our hemisphere and globally,” said Blinken.
Nayib Bukele at the UN General Assembly.
Sunday night, Bukele proclaimed himself the winner of the elections before the results were known. With 70.25% of the minutes processed in the preliminary scrutiny of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), it has already reached 1,662,313 votes, followed very far by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left) with 139,025 votes and the National Republican Alliance (Arena, right), with 122,926.
These results must be ratified in a final scrutiny with the physical records and that process takes several days.
If the data is confirmed, Bukele would become the first president of El Salvador to be re-elected and the majority in Congress would allow him to continue his war against gangs through an emergency regime, implemented since March 2022.
EFE
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