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Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian turn of El Salvador

5/18/2021, 1:41:42 AM


Nayib Bukele has led the country since 2017. His party has just won a large legislative victory. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele the "coolest president in the world" ? Or an autocrat who rides on the rejection of the political class to arrogate to himself full powers? Elected president of El Salvador in 2017, at only 37 years old, with 53% of the votes in the first round, this young politician has been accumulating electoral successes since. And he was quick to use the overwhelming majority

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele the

"coolest president in the world"

?

Or an autocrat who rides on the rejection of the political class to arrogate to himself full powers?

Elected president of El Salvador in 2017, at only 37 years old, with 53% of the votes in the first round, this young politician has been accumulating electoral successes since.

And he was quick to use the overwhelming majority that his party, Nuevas ideas (new ideas), and his allies obtained in the legislative elections of February 28, 2021. With 61 seats out of 84 deputies, they far exceed the qualified majority of 54 seats, which allows the most structuring decisions to be taken for the country.

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Installed on May 1, this new Parliament was quick to take important decisions.

He replaced nine judges of the Supreme Court of Justice as well as the Attorney General of the Republic without respecting the procedures provided for by the Constitution.

It also has, during the two following plenary sessions,

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