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Weekly Report - 19 July 2018 (WR-18-28)

EL SALVADOR: Bukele fights for right to run for presidency

The constitutional chamber of the supreme court ordered the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) last week to cancel the legal registration of two small left-wing parties, the Partido Social Demócrata (PSD) and Cambio Democrático (CD). At first blush this might not seem particularly significant: neither party has a legislative presence. But it could be decisive in the outcome of the presidential elections in February 2019. Why? Because just two weeks earlier, the former mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele (2015-2018), began talks with the CD to run for president on the party’s ticket following the TSE’s ruling that Bukele’s new party had not met the registration requirements. Recent polls show that Bukele is the presidential frontrunner and could break El Salvador’s political duopoly.

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