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FILE PHOTO: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks during a promotion ceremony from policemen to corporals in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Salvadorans went to the polls on Sunday to vote in legislative and municipal elections that could give a broad victory to President Nayib Bukele’s party, consolidating his overhaul of traditional politics.
Opinion polls show that Bukele’s party, New Ideas, could win more than half of the mayoral positions, and enough seats to hold at least a simple majority in Congress.
A two-thirds majority in Congress would let the party appoint high-level government officials, such as the attorney general and five of the 15 Supreme Court justices.
Salvadorans yesterday went to the polls to vote in legislative and municipal elections that could give a broad victory to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s party, consolidating his overhaul of traditional politics.
Opinion polls show that Bukele’s party, New Ideas, could win more than half of the mayoral positions, and enough seats to hold at least a simple majority in Salvadoran Congress.
A two-thirds majority in Congress would let the party appoint high-level government officials, such as the attorney general and five of the 15 Salvadoran Supreme Court justices.
Bukele, a 39-year-old publicist and city mayor, took office in 2019 promising to root out
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