Initial results indicate a strong advantage of the ruling party in the Assembly. The vote percentage reached 51% according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
The New Ideas party, which took part in the first elections, has consolidated a major advantage in the preliminary results released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) since last night, and while there is no official data on the number of delegates achieved, absolute number project for the ruling party, the domain of the Legislative Assembly.
At the end of this edition (1:20 a.m. this Monday), TSE data gave 390,721 votes for New Ideas at the national level, 97,226 votes from the NI-GANA coalition and 70,948 for ARENA, 47,460 for FMLN, 40,098 for GANA, 26,073 for PCN, 13,281 for PDC and 9,090 for Nuestro Tiempo with 31% of the records sent (2,622).
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The person responsible for the TSE’s technical mission, Eduardo Lozano, explained at 9:27 am last night that the transmission system was working normally until then. Until then, the computing center had received 2.59% of the results of the parliamentary elections, or 219 minutes of the 8,451 to be processed.
“It should be clear that according to the seat allocation system, these data are not the number of seats, but the number of votes. There must be a process of collecting votes and this is until final scrutiny, ”Lozano explained, referring to the system of quotients and residuals of the electoral law.
“The only center that has not fought,” says the ARENA center head. “Politics is no bigger than coming together,” he added. This in the Carlos Álvarez Pineda park, Calle a Motocross in San Salvador. Photo EDH / Ricardo Avelar
Data on the number of alternates and who are the most elected alternates will be available in the course of the week and possibly until the last review.
New normal
Parliamentary and municipal elections have been relatively normal, with the exception of some logistical inconveniences, such as the late opening of some polling stations due to the lack of electoral packages or the delay in voting in some host boards due to the extra time needed to implement the protocols on biosecurity measures. to prevent COVID-19 infections, such as applying alcohol gel to colored pencils and disinfecting voters’ DUIs.
In part due to a problem with the credentials of the NI and GANA board members, a situation was resolved in the early morning hours after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) issued a resolution to resolve the issue.
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Another pertinent aspect was the opinion of the election observers who validated the performance of the Vote Receiving Boards (JRV), which is summarized in the statements of the United States Representative in El Salvador, denouncing all suspicions of ‘fraud’ ruling party President Nayib Bukele and the supporters of New Ideas and GANA repeated.
“It is very important that I work with the institutions to verify this,” said the US Chargé d’Affaires. “The important thing is not to say there is fraud where there is no fraud,” said Brendan O’Brien, Chargé d’Affaires for the US embassy in the country.
Electoral participation was also important. Although precise data is still lacking, voters responded to the call to vote despite the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk of contagion when visiting a center with many people.
TSE president Dora Martínez assured at 9:27 pm that 51% of the summoned voters had participated.
TSE conference for international observers. Photo EDH
“Until then, we have surpassed the influx of voters from other elections: we have 51% of the people who took part. The pandemic was not a pretext for not further implementing democracy, ”he said at an information conference.
In general, the distance suggested by the health authorities was observed, as well as the adequate and systematic use of biosecurity measures such as the use of alcohol gel and masks. An important participation of older people was also observed, who had priority on arrival at the JRVs.
Break the silence
Another notable aspect is President Nayib Bukele’s call to vote at a press conference before casting his vote.
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Despite the fact that the electoral law prohibits voting three days before elections, which is called electoral silence, the president, without mentioning the party names, called on the population to vote to “remove the same old people” and even he called the “auction operation” in the sense of completing the victory that voters gave him to come to power in 2019 with an Assembly favorable to the executive.
This is in addition to the various inaugurations of works such as the La Libertad bypass and the announcement of the delivery of computers to public schools and the delivery of solidarity packs, even without DUI registration, which took place even a day before the vote.