Nayib Bukele offered a euphoric speech on Sunday in front of a crowd that attended the surroundings of the National Palace after he was elected president of El Salvador, according to preliminary results published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The leader of the Nuevas Ideas party assured, accompanied by his wife Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, that he obtained more than 85% of the votes, which he described as a record of democratic expression in the entire history of his country and the world. .
These are the most notable statements of the Salvadoran president, who will repeat his term in office despite the opposition to his candidacy and the complaints of unconstitutionality:
“El Salvador broke all records”
“This day El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world. In all of history, since democracy has existed, never has a project won with the number of votes that we have won today. It is literally the highest percentage in all of history, it is the highest difference between first and second place in all of history.”
“The entire opposition was pulverized”
“Not only did we win the presidency of the Republic for the second time, with more than 85% of the votes, but we have won the Legislative Assembly with at least 58 out of 60 deputies. It is possible that it is more. It would be the first time in a country that there is a single party in a fully democratic system. “The entire opposition together was pulverized.”
“The two-party system had us subjugated”
“In 2019 we broke the two-party system that had us subjected and we put an end to the post-war period, but we did not have governability. Do you remember how we fought with the Legislative Assembly at that time? They didn’t let us do anything good for the people. In 2021, you gave us a qualified majority in the Legislative Assembly, with which we were able to remove the previous Constitutional Chamber, the attorney general, approve what we needed for the Territorial Control Plan and in March 2022 approve the regime of exception”.
“The people spoke loud and clear”
“They say that Salvadorans live oppressed and that they do not want the emergency regime, that they live in fear of the government. And I tell the journalists who are with us tonight—in total freedom and security, in the safest country in the entire Western Hemisphere—do not believe me, I am just a politician, an official, believe the Salvadoran people, What he is telling you: the Salvadoran people spoke loud and clear. If that does not convince you, gentlemen journalists, from the NGOs, from international organizations, from the UN and the OAS, nothing will convince you.”
“We are not going to be your lackeys”
“We Salvadorans choose our path, we want to be friends with everyone, we love Spain, Europe, the United States and all countries. We love you, we don’t ask anything of you, the only thing we ask is respect. We respect you, but you are obliged to respect us. This applies to all countries in the world. El Salvador wants to do commerce with everyone, for everyone to come visit us. We want them to come, visit us, get to know us; We want to be your friends, your allies, your partners. What we are not going to be is his lackeys.”
“Gangs were an imported recipe”
“The gangs were an imported recipe because, when those displaced by the war, some of them who went to the United States and went to live in ghettos, gangs were formed there and then President Clinton decided that he was going to deport the gang members. . They sent us the gang members in 1997 and, to top it all off, they gave us another prescription: that we approve the law on minor offenders so that we could not arrest the gang members who were coming and who at that time were minors. And what happened? The gangs grew until they controlled 85% of the national territory and murdered more than a hundred thousand Salvadorans.”
“On the verge of winning the war against gangs”
“We have begun to defeat our greatest evil and we are about to win the war against the gangs. We went from being, and this is not an exaggeration, the most insecure country in the world to being the safest country in the entire Western Hemisphere. The safest country on the entire American continent. And what did they say? (Nayib Bukele) is violating human rights. Whose human rights? From honest people? No. Maybe we prioritized the rights of honest people over the rights of criminals. “That is the only thing we have done and what you call ‘violating human rights’.”
“Why do they want us to be killed?
“I ask foreign agencies and governments: why do you want us to be killed? Why do they want to see the blood of Salvadorans? Why aren’t they happy that the blood that flowed before no longer flows in our country? Why must we and our children die for you to be happy? (We), who are respecting your false democracy that not even you yourselves respect in your own countries. “We Salvadorans have given an example to the entire world.”
“There is no polarization here”
“We Salvadorans have united, there is no polarization here. As there will always be a small opposition group, that is normal in any free. There is always a small group that does not want and has the right not to want, but here there is no polarization. 85% of Salvadorans have voted for the path we are taking in full freedom and full democracy. What are we, if not tools of God? “God wanted to heal our country and he healed it through a united people who left the past behind and decided to take the reins of their own destiny.”
“We will continue doing the impossible”
“In these next five years, wait and see what we are going to do. Because we will continue doing the impossible and we will continue showing the world the example of El Salvador.”
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