The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has registered more than 5.3 million voters who are called today to approach 8,451 polling stations in the 1,595 polling stations across the country.
El Salvador is preparing on this day to elect its new deputies and mayors for the legislature from 2021 to 2024. Elections are taking place amid accusations from the political opposition that the government has used public resources to campaign for Allied parties new ideas and the Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA).
Also, to questions from the ruling party that there is an alleged electoral fraud in the middle of the COVID pandemic 19.
On this day, Salvadorans are holding elections in which they will elect 84 members of the Legislative Assembly, 262 city councils and 20 new representatives of the US Central Parliament (Parlacen), out of a total of 17,074 candidates.
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Parlacen is a body of political and democratic representation of the Central American Integration System (SICA) whose members represent Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.
After the last elections in 2018, El Salvador has 20 deputies in Parlacen, of which 8 are from ARENA, 8 from FMLN, 2 belong to the GANA party, 1 represents PCN and 1 PDC.
According to data from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), more than 5.3 million voters are called this Sunday to approach the 8,451 polling stations in the 1,595 polling stations across the country.
The electoral list consists of 5,389,017 of which 2,877,016 women (53.39%) and 2,512,001 men (46.61%).
Magistrate Noel Orellana confirmed to this media in November last year that there are over 200,000 new voters for these elections, based on the number of elections in 2018 in which deputies and municipal councils were elected, with a list of 5,186,042 people.
Irregularities before the elections
In recent weeks, a number of allegations have been made against the executive for using state resources to campaign for elections and to influence the voter, despite the fact that the country’s laws forbid it.
On the first day of the election silence, vendors in Dueñas Square in Santa Tecla confirmed that the government had given them a box of food along with a calendar with a photo of Republican President Nayib Bukele.
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At the same time as the delivery of the food box, in his public profile the New Ideas candidate for Mayor of Santa Tecla, Henry Flores, published a greeting to the vendors in Dueñas Square where he said “I send a big hug to our friends in Dueñas Square”.
Despite the fact that the Electoral Code prohibits civil servants from inaugurating works of any kind one month before the election so as not to influence the voter’s intention at the last minute, President Nayib Bukele and his government officials have overcome this. ban on delivering computers to public school students and “activating” the Liberty bypass less than 15 days before today’s election, lawyers said.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in the last week of February criticized these actions and ordered the Government and its institutions “to refrain from publishing in the media the contracts, the inaugurations of works they have carried out, perform or intends to perform them. “
Similarly, the Collegiate Body had suspended a seat of the presidency of the Republic and of officials, emphasizing that this was intended to influence the decision of the citizens.
Repeatedly, EST magistrate Guillermo Wellman denounced non-compliance with the country’s laws, as well as the delivery of food, subliminal advertisements, inaugurations, among other actions of the executive.
“Irregular situations have been seen, there is no respect here and he knows that the first to break the order is the chief magistrate of the country, the president, the president did not want to accept the rules of the game, despite the fact that those rules of the game do so. they took him to the place where he is “, the magistrate criticized last Friday in a radio interview.
The President of the Assembly denounces Bukele
On the other hand, the President of the Legislative Assembly, Mario Ponce, publicly denounced on Saturday, through his social network Twitter account, that the Government did not respect the law by violating the electoral silence and the current legal system.
“The executive continues to use state mechanisms and prevail over the institutions to demand the vote,” Ponce said.
In the same vein, the president urged the presidency to abide by the law and not to use the state apparatus.
“The Salvadorans are in a moment of reflection a few hours after deciding who will be the next leaders. It is important that the law is respected and that the state apparatus is not used to request the vote “, wrote Ponce.