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February 6, 2024

What Will Bukele’s Second Term Mean for El Salvador?

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, celebrated his re-election victory on Sunday night. The president spoke to supporters from the National Palace. // Photo: Facebook Page of Nayib Bukele.

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Leonor Arteaga, program director at the Due Process of Law Foundation: “Bukele declared victory before official results were announced, claiming to have won over 85 percent of the vote—a margin so large that the country comes close to being a one-party state. His consecutive re-election not only ‘normalizes’ a president staying in power despite legal prohibition; it also signals, dangerously, that combating crime while having no due process or judicial independence, negotiating with organized criminal groups and systematically using torture on people being held without trial are acceptable ways of governing. We will likely see increased media discourse stigmatizing the work of human rights defenders and vilifying those who seek government transparency, harassment of independent journalists and those voicing dissent, and concealment and manipulation of…”

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