San Salvador.
Nayib Bukele, the young president who gave the grace shot to the ‘ bipartisanship rooted a the Savior for three decades, it will dominate from May onwards Congress through a allied majority to drive its management.
To theirs 39 years old, this entrepreneur of the Millennial generation he succeeded with an intense election campaign towards the Sunday legislative elections attracting the vote of the Salvadorans again to oust “the same as always “.
Qualified by some as close to village, however criticized for their authoritarian nuances, the popularity of Bukele increased by his management of the pandemic, according to analysts.
From before coming to the presidency in 2019, I will see catapult your image through the Social Networks. And in his management, he makes important announcements of his management via Twitter, and on the same platform responds to the criticism of his opponents.
“Read the disgust”
“He ‘s a young man out of the ordinary who had the vision of reading disgust from population i give him hope “, Defined a I will see after her presidential victory Maria Ofelia Navarrete, dissident guerrilla of the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN), Today Minister of Local Development.
For his takeover on June 1, 2019, Bukele pLanguages make the act next to their voters in the central Plaza Gerardo Barris, breaking the tradition to perform the ceremony a closed enclosures.
Next to his wife Gabriela Rodríguez -cwhere who has a daughter, Laylas- usually post photos relatives which are immediately he retweetedor his followers.
And he chooses an informal style: he rarely wears a tie and dresses jeans, Brightly colored socks, rather of leather and cap.
Bukele came to power at the age of 37 and became the younger president of the history of El Salvador, from the hand of the Great Alliance for National Unity (Win, Conservative).
Once in government, I will see transform movement New Ideas (NI) in political party and maintains alliance with win. They both got the majority of votes in the legislatures on Sunday.
The virtue of Bukeland is that “he has no commitment to any political or economic sector, nor social “, and that is why since 2015 it appears in the polls as “Apotheosis phenomenon”, Evaluated Francisco Zepeda, director of the Center of Investigation of the Public Opinion of the Technological University (UTEC).
Authority or authoritarianism?
Together with the police, he confronted the citizen insecurity ia la gang activity of the maras, who have been whipping the country for decades.
And he has used the Navy forcess, both to distribute food during the pandemica, as to appear with troops in the opposing Parliament and press for the approval of a loan for a security plan.
“What worries me is that in these early years of government Nayib has shown many situations that leave much to be desired: the lack of transparency, Accusations of corruption, his hate vocabulary “, Said Miguel Montenegro, Director of the Commission on Human Rights.
Since the campaign for the presidency, he popularized the phrase “Return the stolen”, Addressed to politicians, and vociferated since then by his followers in front of militants of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena, right), which he ruled from 1989 to 2009.
He also directed his batteries against the government of the FMLN, His party, in power between 2009 and 2019, and now blames him for abandoning the infrastructure of public health.
Born July 24, 1981, he is the son of the victim businessman Armando Bukele, industrial chemist and community representative of Arab-Palestinian origin, and Olga Ortez.
He studied law at the Jesuit Central American University (UCA) in Sant Salvador, But did not graduate, And chose to work from the age of 18 in a company of his father.
Beginnings in the FMLN
Bukele began his political career with the FMLN, which he oxygenated electorally with his campaigns for mayor of Sant Salvador, but the party prosecuted him internally after allegedly calling him “Witch” to a councilwoman.
This incident resulted in his expulsion of the grouping in October 2017.
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the Bukele family sympathized with the principles of social justice that the FMLN it rose in the eighties, when it was guerrilla, and came to toast refuge to some of its leaders despite the risks.
According to the book “Who is Nblame Bukele?“From the journalist Geovani Galeas, one afternoon in 1987 the candidate secretly entered the home of the legendary guerrilla Shafik Handal, one of the five commanders of the FMLN.
With the left he won the election andn 2012 as alcalde de Nou Cuscatlán and took the mayoralty to the right dand San Salvador for the period 2015-2018.