San Salvador.
Nayib Bukele, the young president who took the final straw duality ingrained in The Savior for three decades, will dominate from May Congress via a allied majority to stimulate its management.
to their 39 years old, this businessman from the millennial generation achieved with an intense election campaign towards the parliamentary elections on Sunday are again attracting the voice of Salvadorans to “de same as always “.
Rated by some as close to town, however criticized for their authoritarian nuances, the bukele popularity increased by his management of the pandemic, according to analysts.
Before he became president in 2019, Watch catapulted his image through the social media. And in his management he makes important announcements about his management via Twitter, and on the same platform it responds to the criticism of his opponents.
“Read the Disgust”
“He is an extraordinary young man who is the read vision of disgust from population Y generate hope “, determined Watch following her presidential victory, María Ofelia Navarrete, a dissident ex-guerrilla from the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), today Minister of Local Development.
For its acquisition on June 1, 2019, Bukele pHe decided to hold the deed with his constituents in the central Plaza Gerardo Barrios, taking the tradition around the ceremony in closed enclosures.
With his wife Gabriela Rodríguez-cwhoever has a daughter, Layla- usually posts photos family members that they are immediate retweetedhear his followers.
And go for a casual style: he rarely wears a tie and dresses jeansbrightly colored socks jacket from leather and cap.
Bukele came to power at the age of 37 and became the youngest president from the history of The savior, hand in hand with the Great Alliance for National Unity (Gana, conservative).
Once in government, Watch transformed the movement New ideas (NI) eone political party and maintains the alliance with To winThey both have the majority of votes in parliamentary elections Sunday.
The virtue of Bukele is that “has no obligation political or economic sector, nor social ‘, which is why it has been listed in surveys since 2015 as “apotheosis phenomenon”, Francisco Zepeda, director of the Research Center of Public Opinion at the University of Technology (UTEC) evaluated.
Authority or authoritarianism?
Together with the police, he faced the uncertainty among citizens But the gang activity of the gangs that have plagued the country for decades.
And has the Armed Forcess, both to divide food during the pandemica, as shown with troops in the opposition parliament and insist on the adoption of one loan for a security plan.
“What is worrying is that in these early years of government Nayib has shown many, many situations that leave a lot to be desired: the lack of transparency, allegations of corruption, her hate vocabulary “said Miguel Montenegro, director of the Human Rights Commission.
Since the campaign for president, the phrase has popularized “Give back what was stolen”, addressed to politicians, and have since shouted by his followers for members of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), which ruled from 1989 to 2009.
He also directed his batteries against the government of FMLN, his former party, in power between 2009 and 2019, and now blames him for leaving the infrastructure of Public health.
Born on July 24, 1981, he is the son of the late businessman Armando Bukele, industrial chemist and community representative of Arab-Palestinian descent, and Olga Ortez.
He studied law at the Jesuit Central American University (UCA) San Salvador, but not graduated, and chose to work in a company owned by his father from the age of 18.
Start in the FMLN
Bukele started his political career with the FMLN, which he provided electorally with oxygen with his campaigns for mayor of San Salvador, but the party processed it internally after supposedly qualifying as “witch” for a councilor.
That incident led to his eviction of the group October 2017.
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The bukele family sympathized with the principles of social justice that the FMLN it flew in the eighties when it was guerrilla, and came to make a toast retreat some of its leaders despite the risks.
According to the book “Who is NBlame Bukele?“, by journalist Geovani Galeas, the candidate saw the legendary guerrilla secretly enter his home one afternoon in 1987. Shafik HandaHe, one of the five FMLN commanders.
With the left he won the elections andn 2012 Like itMayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán and he snatched the mayor’s office from the rightand San Salvador for the period 2015-2018.