The current mayor, Roberto d’Aubuisson, of the ARENA party, accepted the defeat, stating that he had complied with the tecleños.
Henry Esmildo Flores Cerón is the candidate who took the seat of the building from the current mayor, Roberto d’Aubuisson, by more than 30,317 votes.
Until 5:00 p.m., the count of the minutes gave Henry Flores the advantage of 8,598 votes, while Mayor Roberto d’Aubuisson accepted his defeat with 21,719 votes in favor of ARENA.
The current mayor stated that he has served the tecleños twice and left a mark with his Teclaseo programs and the video surveillance system.
SEE: Mayor Roberto d’Aubuisson accepts the defeat of the Mayor of Santa Tecla
While during his campaign, Henry Flores pledged to the Tecleños to restore 71 laid-off workers from the mayor’s office, in addition to building three parking buildings, improving cultural spaces and the historic center.
Also an animal welfare program that includes a hospital, clinic and opening of a pet park.
He also indicated that he would eliminate the Teclaseo system and that he will lead a public-private association open to tecleños and that the profit made from this system is 50%.
He added that he will implement panic nodes on city poles, while in rural areas he pledged to bring drinking water to five cantons.
During the morning interview, the day the electoral silence begins, Henry Flores stated that he had been accompanied by the water commissioner, Frederick Benítez, to see the feasibility of opening wells in the canton of El Progreso and Las Granadillas.
Flores was a journalist for the Transparency Page during the term of office of the FMLN government.
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In addition, he was arrested in June 2013 for allegedly threatening a National Registry Center employee.
The case went to court, but Flores did not comply with the measures imposed on the victim by the court in Quinto de Paz. On that occasion, the reconciliation with the offended woman failed because Flores did not comply with the measures imposed by the court.
While in October 2019, he was indicted by another person for serious fraud in front of the Attorney General’s Office.
Henry Esmildo Flores Cerón accepted the position of Director of Victim Protection at the Ministry of Justice and Security, without being a lawyer and without knowing anything about the case.