Bukele leads voting intention with 70.9% 20 days before elections in El Salvador

The president of The Savior and candidate for re-election, Nayib Bukelehas 70.9% voting intention for the elections on February 4, in which he will seek re-election, despite accusations that it is unconstitutional, according to a survey released this Tuesday.

According to the study by the Center for Citizen Studies (CEC) of the private Francisco Gavidia University (UFG), Bukele leads the voting intention and none of the other five candidates in competition exceed the 3% of voting intention.

Furthermore, it was identified a twenty-one% of abstention or null votes, said Óscar Picardo, director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation of the UFG, during the presentation of the results.

Bukele, despite the fact that he himself maintained in the past that immediate re-election is prohibited in the Constitution, announced in September 2022 that he will seek to remain in power in 2024.

This occurred after the Constitutional Chamber, elected by the ruling majority Congress in a process questioned after the dismissal of its predecessors, changed a criterion from 2004 in which it was indicated that a president should wait 10 years to seek again The presidency.

The data also reveal that the ruling New Ideas (NI) party would maintain the majority in the Legislative Assembly with 57 of 60 seats, the opposition Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) would obtain two deputies and the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) – an ally of the Government – a.

The survey indicates that the 60.7% of the people interviewed have little or no confidence in the work of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) ahead of this year’s general elections.

The CEC survey was carried out between January 3 and 8 of this year, with a national sample of 1,904 interviews, and with a sampling error of more or less 2.8% and a 95% trustworthy.