About 5.4 million Salvadorans have been called to elect the new Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE, reported this evening at a press conference on the development of the preliminary examination of the legislative and municipal elections held today.
We have 51% of the electorate’s participation in the municipal and legislative elections, said the president of EST, Dora Esmeralda Martínez.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Lozano, TSE technician, said that the data currently published on the electoral body’s website reports only the number of votes, not the number of legislative seats, as it is a number that is made in the final number.
More than 8,000 records are still being processed, Lozano added, explaining that the system updates the information every 30 seconds.
The 1,595 polling stations began to close at 5 pm to make way for the counting of votes for the municipal and legislative elections.
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In addition, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) performed the zeroing of the results processing system preliminary elections. This provides certainty that the system will record the results, based on information from the three records generated in each of the 8,451 JRVs.
About 5.4 million Salvadorans were called to elect the new Congress, 262 mayors and a number of members of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), a legislative institution for regional integration.
The elected officials will take office on May 1. All fees are for three-year terms.
Earlier, the magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Noel Orellana, commented that if in any case the system of counting the preliminary vote fails, the electoral body is ready.
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“We do not have one, but two contingency plans to implement if the technology on the table fails, we are optimistic that it would not happen, but if this happens, we have all the necessary measures, including, as in as a last resort, we can even manually complete the same formats of the minutes, completed manually with the opinion of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights and Observers which will certify the transparency on which these exceptional issues that may arise in counting votes will be addressed. said Orellana.