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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 14 December 2018

EL SALVADOR: Bukele’s harnessing of social media raises questions

Supporters of Nayib Bukele, the frontrunner ahead of presidential elections on 3 February, burst into the offices of the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) on 6 December. Bukele, who is standing for the centre-right Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Gana), used social media to urge supporters to march on the TSE headquarters denouncing electoral fraud. Bukele’s rivals joined the TSE president, Julio Olivo, in criticising the ensuing violence.

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