A survey published this week by the Center for Citizen Studies (CEC) at the Francisco Gavidia University in El Salvador found President Nayib Bukele with an overwhelmingly ample lead towards his reelection next year – despite the country’s Constitution banning him from seeking reelection.
CEC’s survey found an overwhelming 68.4 percent of voters would choose Bukele and the ruling New Ideas (NI) Party in the upcoming election. His closest rival, Joel Sánchez of the center-right Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), only received 4.3 percent support. Manuel Flores of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) – which Bukele used to be a member of – came in third place with 2.8 percent support.
Bukele was a member of the FMLN until the leftist party expelled him in 2017 for “violating” party principles.
The survey found 9.9 percent of…
