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Gang-weary Salvadorans elect Nayib Bukele as new president


February 4, 2019

Salvadorans on Sunday elected Nayib Bukele, the popular former mayor of San Salvador, as the Central American country’s new president— a result that ends the near 30-year grip on power of its two largest parties. The country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) awarded him 53.78 percent of votes with 87.67 percent counted — a lead it considered “irreversible”. The 37-year-old president-elect, of …

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