The 2021 legislative, municipal and Central American parliamentary elections took place in El Salvador on February 28. Preliminary legislative results show the president’s party, Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas), winning the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly. Vying for the second largest number of votes received are a coalition between Nuevas Ideas and the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) party, with which Bukele ran for president in 2019, and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).

The recent killing of opposition party members in the lead up to legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador on Sunday has drawn the attention of Members of Congress, who recently expressed concerns to the State Department about an electoral climate dominated by “political violence, intimidation, and corruption.” 

Washington, DC - On February 24, a group of fifteen Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to express their "deep concern regarding political violence, intimidation, and corruption in El Salvador" in light of upcoming legislative and municipal elections on February 28.

Read the letter here.

CISPES condena enérgicamente el ataque violento en contra de miembros del partido izquierdista FMLN

On the evening of January 31, gunmen opened fire on a group of supporters of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The group, traveling in a pickup truck covered with FMLN signs, was returning from a day of campaigning for the upcoming February 28 mayoral and legislative elections in San Salvador. Two veterans of the armed conflict, Gloria Rogel del Cid and Juan de Dios Tejada, died and at least two more injured.

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