Nayib Bukele won with 85% of the votes, according to data from the Salvadoran government. His party, Nuevas Ideas, has also achieved an important victory in the Legislative Assembly.

This position of power will make it easier for the president to continue with the security policies that he has defended until now, with which he has supposedly dismantled the active gangs in the country. EL PAÍS journalist Juan Diego Quesada analyzes the figure of the president of El Salvador.