El Salvador's New President Could be More Dangerous than FMLN Communists

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El Salvador's New President Could be More Dangerous than FMLN Communists
By Vanesa Vallejo

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's new president, has won election with the support of a right-wing party, but he holds radical leftist views even more extreme than those of the FMLN.

On Sunday, February 3, there were presidential elections in El Salvador. After 30 years of bipartisanship, the new president was elected from outside the ranks of either the socialist FMLN or the right-wing ARENA. However, the news is not as good as some have claimed. In fact, Nayib Bukele, president-elect of El Salvador, may prove to be even more dangerous than the socialist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.

With 53% of the votes, Nayib Bukele won a first round victory against Carlos Calleja, the candidate of ARENA, a party that is popularly known as the right wing, who won 31.78% of the votes. In third place was Hugo Martínez of the socialist FMLN. Bukele ran on the ticket of the GANA party, the Grand Alliance for National Unity, which on paper defines itself as conservative and center-right, but which in practice is a party that supports the FMLN in laws and votes.

Interestingly, Bukele began his career within the ranks of the FMLN as a small town mayor, but was later expelled from the party, whereupon he linked up with GANA. At 37, he will be one of the youngest national leaders in the region. He has framed his unexpected victory as a blow against a corrupt two party system, declaring, “This day is a historic day. This day, El Salvador destroyed the bipartisanship.”

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