Nayib Bukele
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman. He is the 46th and current President of El Salvador since 1 June 2019 after winning the 2019 election. He was previously elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán on 11 March 2012, and mayor of San Salvador on 1 March 2015. A populist, he has been criticized for governing in an authoritarian manner.
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Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez ; born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman. He is the 46th and current President of El Salvador since 1 June 2019 after winning the 2019 election. He was previously elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán on 11 March 2012, and mayor of San Salvador on 1 March 2015. He contested and won the elections to both public offices under the banner of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front party. A populist, he has been criticized for governing in an authoritarian manner. This action, his handling of endemic violence in El Salvador, and his strict response to the COVID-19 pandemic have led some academics to describe him as an autocrat or an authoritarian. In February 2018, he attended the 32nd International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem, where he was seen praying at the Western Wall, and revealed that his wife’s grandfather was a Sephardic Jew.
On 3 February 2019, he announced that he had won the presidential elections with ease. He won 53% of the vote, thereby eliminating the need for a candidate for a first-off election. Challenger Hugo Martínez conceded defeat and conceded defeat with 53%. He is now the first president since José Napoleón Duarte not to have been elected as the candidate of one of the country’s two major political parties, the FMLN and ARENA. He started the movement Nuevas Ideas with the goal of making it a political party where he could run as a presidential candidate.
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