The partial preliminary scrutiny of the presidential elections held this Sunday in El Salvador gives a overwhelming victory for the president and candidate for re-election, Nayib Bukelewith 1,295,888 votes for his party, Nuevas Ideas (NI), well ahead of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left), with 110,244, and the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), with 96,700, according to data released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which must be ratified in a final scrutiny.

With 2,697 minutes processed out of a total of 8,562 (31.49%), Nuestro Tiempo (NT) is in fourth place, with 35,129 valid votes, Solidarity Force and Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity (FPS)which total 13,381 and 10,312 votes, respectively.

With this percentage of preliminary scrutiny provided by the TSE more than five hours after schools closed, The unused votes total 141,768 (more than those obtained by the FMLN, the second political force), the invalid votes total 32,481, the abstentions 7,943 and the contested votes 829.

The TSE, which announced that it will implement a plan so that residents abroad can pay who were unable to do so due to the closure of the voting centers when there were still voters waiting in lines, have not yet processed any of the minutes of the legislative elections.

Some 6.2 million Salvadorans (740,000 residents abroad) They were called to vote this Sunday in elections that were held under the emergency regime decreed on March 27 of 2022 by President Bukele, something that has not happened since the civil war ended in 1992.

Election day passed without serious incidents, Although nine people were arrested, for tearing electoral ballots, making political proclamations at polling places or showing up while intoxicated (from yesterday Saturday until tomorrow Monday, dry law applies in the country).

Most of the voting centers closed at 5:00 p.m. this Sunday (23:00 GMT), giving way to the start of the recount of the elections in which the current president, Nayib Bukele, was running for re-election, despite that the Constitution does not allow it.