With 80 percent of the vote counted on Monday 01 March 2021 morning, the electoral authority said its projections showed candidates from Bukele’s New Ideas party (Nuevas Ideas) and the allied GANA party could win 56 seats of the 84-member congress.
Bukele celebrated early on Monday, tweeting, “Our people have waited 40 years for this.”
A supermajority would allow the president free rein to pick new Supreme Court judges and the country’s attorney general, along with the power to enact constitutional changes, without any need to negotiate with opposition legislators.
The 39-year-old Bukele, a populist and one of Latin America’s youngest presidents, won a landslide victory in 2019 on a pledge to root out corruption. Despite tensions with the previous congress, he has maintained sky-high approval ratings.
Slightly more than half of the 5.3 million people eligible to cast ballots participated in the elections on Sunday to pick lawmakers and local officials.
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