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Weekly Report - 02 August 2018 (WR-18-30)

EL SALVADOR: Third time lucky for Bukele

Despite various obstacles thrown in his way by the national electoral authorities (TSE), Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s most popular politician, will run for the presidency in 2019. Following the TSE’s decision not to register Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party and then to exclude from the race the small left-wing Cambio Democrático (CD) which had endorsed him as its candidate [WR-18-28], the opposition right-of-centre Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Gana), the country’s third largest party, has now chosen Bukele as its candidate. This is a blow for the already unpopular ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena). It has raised eyebrows, however, given the apparent ideological dissonance between Bukele, a former FMLN mayor for Nuevo Cuscatlán (2012-2015) and San Salvador (2015-2018), and Gana which was formed out of Arena dissidents in 2010.

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