Civic celebration began in El Salvador

San Salvador, Feb 4 (Prensa Latina) The civic celebration in El Salvador began today in this nation, and in other countries where Salvadorans with the right to vote reside, according to media reports.

February 4, 2024
08:35

Moisés Urbina, main commentator of channel 4 of Telecorporación Salvadoreña, at the beginning of the transmissions, called his compatriots to go out to vote and highlighted that the exercise has already culminated in Japan and Australia, where, according to reports, there was a balanced vote for the only six with candidates out of the eleven parties participating.

A report of the pro-government Diario El Salvador, indicated that the electronic voting for Salvadorans in Australia and Japan ended “satisfactorily”. There are 2,404,110 nationals authorized to vote abroad electronically in person, in the 81 voting centers located in various parts of the world, said the report.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) revealed that the presential voting of Salvadorians ended and that Australia was the first to open its consulates to make way for voting.

In the case of South America, Chile was one of the first countries to open the voting centers, from 07:00 to 17:00, local time, as well as the other countries, according to the time zone of each region.

The newspaper El Mundo reported that more than five million Salvadorans will be able to vote today in El Salvador to elect the president and vice-president of the Republic and 60 deputies and their 60 alternates who will form the new Legislative Assembly.

There are six presidential candidates, among them, the president Nayib Bukele; besides Manuel Flores (FMLN), Joel Sánchez, (Arena), Luis Parada, (Nuestro Tiempo), José Renderos (Fuerza Solidaria), and Marina Murillo of Fraternidad Patriótica Salvadoreña (FPS).

According to the last survey conducted by the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Iudop) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), Bukele registered 81.9 percent of the voting intention, followed distantly by Manuel Flores of the FMLN with 4.2, Joel Sánchez of Arena 3.4, Luis Parada of Nuestro Tiempo 2.5, José Renderos Fuerza Solidaria 1.1 and Marina Murillo 1 percent.

TSE foresees to have electoral results before midnight of February 4, as commented the day before by magistrate Noel Orellana.

“We should have before midnight the results of the different voting positions that we will be seeing tomorrow,” he said. On the other hand, the media are intensifying their call to the population to show up at the polling centers, in which there have been reports of movement since before 05:00 local time.

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