The survey showed that 92 percent of those consulted approve of the presidential administration of Nayib Bukele, who aspires to a second term, challenged by six other aspirants to the seat in the Presidential House.

The government’s security policy, established since 2019 in the Territorial Control Plan (PCT, as its acronym in Spanish), and wrapped since March 2022 by the exception regime, were ” the government’s icing on the cake” in the fight against insecurity caused by the gangs or maras, whose members number close to 74 thousand are currently in prison.

The study concluded that 82 percent of those questioned support the security measures a lot, 10 somewhat, four a little, two not at all and the remaining two percent did not answer or said they did not know, according to details disclosed today by Luis Haug, manager of Gallup in the program “Frente a Frente” of the Telecorporación Salvadoreña (TCS).

The executive said that for 86 percent of the participants in the survey, crime and violence decreased in the last four months, for 11 percent it remained the same and for three percent it had increased.

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