Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill), and Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) issued a statement following the conclusion of elections in El...
My father often says that a democracy means certainty in rules and uncertainty in results. If there was something in El Salvador last Sunday, before the Salvadoran votes were processed, it was certainty in results, after a series of violations of the Constitution,...
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) declared the preliminary scrutiny a failure and, without providing explanations about the process’s errors, agreed to open all the ballot boxes for the Legislative Assembly deputy election and part of the ballot boxes for the...
Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself the winner of the presidential and legislative elections on February 4, less than two hours after the polls closed, at the end of an election day full of anomalies and without reliable official results from the Supreme Electoral...
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) system for vote counting and the transmission of preliminary data from the presidential and legislative elections on February 4th failed. The TSE website projected a vote count higher than the electoral roll and recorded data from...
“We have taken note of what is happening in El Salvador. Voters seem to have chosen President Bukele, although the count has not yet finished,” said Katrin Deschauer, spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry. “We have also taken note that during...
