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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February 4, 2019