Radio YSUCA in El Salvador provides a portrait of life in rural Arcatao following President Bukele’s deployment of military forces to patrol the border with Honduras

An unlawful ruling will permit political parties to vote on final elections results

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.” 

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