San Salvador.
Nayib Bukele, the young president who gave the coup de grace bipartisan rooted in the Savior for three decades, it will dominate from May Congress through most allies boost its management.
To them 39 years old, this businessman from millennial generation carried out with an intense election campaign to Sunday’s legislative elections draws Salvadoran vote again to eliminate “ as always “.
Rated by some as close to the city as possible, but criticized to theirs authoritarian nuances, popularity buckles enhanced by its management of pandemic, according to analysts.
Since becoming president in 2019, Clock he catapulted his image through social media. And in his leadership, he makes important announcements about his leadership via Twitter, and on the same platform responds to criticism of his opponents.
“Read the disgust”
“He is an extraordinary young man who has had vision of reading disgust from populations Yes generates hope “, defined Clock after the presidential victory, María Ofelia Navarrete, a former dissident guerrilla from the far-left National Liberation Front Farabundo Martí (FMLN), today Minister of Local Development.
For its takeover on June 1, 2019, Bukele pHe decided to organize the event with his constituents in the central Plaza Gerardo Barrios, breaking tradition to perform ceremony in the closed premises.
With his wife Gabriela Rodríguez -cwho has a daughter, Layla- usually posts photos kin that I am immediately retweetedhear his followers.
And choose a casual style: she rarely wears a tie and dresses jeansbrightly colored socks jacket of leather and hat.
Bukele came to power at the age of 37 and became the youngest president from history The Savior, hand in hand with the Great Alliance for National Unity (Ghana, conservative).
Once in government, Clock transformed the movement New ideas (NI) en political party and maintains alliance with Victory. They both received the majority of votes in the legislative elections Sunday.
Virtue Bukelis that “he has no commitment to any of them political or economic sector, nor social “, and that is why since 2015 it has been included in surveys as “Apotheosis phenomenon”, assessed Francisco Zepeda, director of the Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Technology (UTEC).
Authority or authoritarianism?
Together with the police, he confronted citizen insecurity However gang activity of gangs, which have affected the country for decades.
And he used Armed forcess, both to distribute food during the pandemica, to appear with troops in the opposition parliament and push for the approval of a loan For a security plan.
“What is worrying is that in these first years of governing Nayib showed many, many situations that leave much to be desired: lack of transparency, accusations of corruption, It is hate vocabulary “said Miguel Montenegro, director of the Commission on Human Rights.
Since the presidential campaign, he has popularized the phrase “Give back what was stolen”, addressed politicians, and has since shouted at his followers in front of members of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), which he led from 1989 to 2009.
He also turned his batteries against the government FMLN, his former party, in power between 2009 and 2019, and now blames him for abandoning the infrastructure in public health.
Born on July 24, 1981, he is the son of the late businessman Armando Bukele, industrial chemist and community representative of Arab-Palestinian origin, and Olga Ortez.
He studied law at the Jesuit University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, but did not graduate, and chose to work from the age of 18 in a company owned by his father.
Beginnings in FMLN
Bukele began his political career with FMLN, which he oxygenated through his election campaigns for mayor San Salvador, but the party processed it internally after it qualified as law “Witch” to a counselor.
This incident led to his expulsion of grouping in October 2017.
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family bokele sympathize with the principles of social justice that they FMLN it was flying in the eighties, when it was guerrilla, and came to toast refuge some of its leaders despite the risks.
According to the book “Who is Nblame Bukele?“, by the journalist Geovani Galeas, in an afternoon from 1987, the candidate secretly saw the legendary guerrilla entering his house Shafik HandaHe, one of the five FMLN commanders.
With the left he won the election andn 2012 thatThe mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán and snatched the town hall from the rightand San Salvador for the period 2015-2018.