El Salvador opposition requests repeat election for congress after irregularities in vote count

Opposition parties in El Salvador on Monday asked the country's election authority to void the results of congressional elections that took place in early February and re-do the vote after a hand count of ballots revealed several irregularities. On Sunday, Feb. 4, President Nayib Bukele handily won a second term despite a constitutional ban on immediate re-election, when Salvadorans cast their ballots for president and Congress. Despite Bukele claiming his New Ideas party had won 58 out of 60 seats, in the days that followed El Salvador's electoral body began a hand count of the vote after declaring a failure in the voting system following numerous reports of irregularities, glitches, and power and internet outages.

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