About 5.4 million Salvadorans were called to elect the new Legislative Assembly and the country’s 262 mayors
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, reported at a press conference tonight on the development of the preliminary investigation into the parliamentary and municipal elections held today.
We have 51% voter participation in municipal and parliamentary elections, said TSE president Dora Esmeralda Martínez.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Lozano, TSE engineer, said the data currently published on the electoral body’s website only mentions the number of votes, not the number of legislative seats, as it is a count made in the final count.
More than 8,000 records are still pending processing, Lozano added, explaining that the system updates the information every 30 seconds.
The 1,595 polling stations began closing at 5 p.m. to make way for the counting of votes in municipal and parliamentary elections.
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In addition, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has performed the zeroing of the results processing system primaries. This provides assurance that the system will record results based on the information from the three records generated in each of the 8,451 JRVs.
About 5.4 million Salvadorans were called to elect the new Congress, 262 mayors from the country and about 20 deputies from the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), a legislative institution for regional integration.
Elected officials take up their duties on May 1. All costs are for three years.
Earlier, the magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Noel Orellana, noted that if the system for provisional vote counting fails, the electoral body is prepared.
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“We have not one, but two contingency plans to implement in the event that the technology on the table fails, we are optimistic it wouldn’t happen, but if this happens we have all the necessary measures in place, including, as in the last resort we can even fill in by hand the same formats of the minutes, completed by hand with the approval of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights and observers, who will attest to the transparency that these exceptional problems that may arise when the votes are counted, ”said Orellana.