The presidential formula of the president Nayib Bukele leads by a wide margin the intention to vote for the 2024 elections in The Saviorin which the president would seek re-election, according to a survey released Monday by a research institute.
The survey was carried out by the Center for Citizen Studies of the Francisco Gavidia University (CEC) between August 15 and 21 to 1,920 citizens of legal age in person, has a 95% confidence level and a +/- 2.8 margin. of mistake.
In the survey, Bukele and his current vice president, Félix Ulloa, added a 68.4% of support, while their closest opponents, from the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), obtained a 4.3%
The candidates of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) received 2.8% of the preferences, Nuestro Tiempo 2%, and Fuerza Solidaria 1.5%. The invalid votes and abstentions reached a 9.2% and a 9.9%, respectively.
The ruling party Nuevas Ideas achieved a similar advantage in voting intentions to elect deputies and mayors, backed by the strength of the public image of the controversial 42-year-old president, according to the results of the study.
“We have concluded that in El Salvador there is a kind of cult phenomenon related to the president.”said the director of the investigation, Óscar Picardo, in a television interview.
Bukele has announced that he will seek re-election despite the fact that the Constitution prohibits consecutive terms. In 2021, the Supreme Court, whose members were appointed by the ruling party-controlled Congress, ruled that the ruler could be re-elected, a decision that drew international condemnation, including from the United States.
Salvadorans will go to the polls on February 4 to elect president and vice president for the period 2024-2029 and deputies until 2027. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal will call elections in September and will begin to receive and analyze the official registrations of the candidates.
Source: Reuters
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