The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, appears to have just won re-election by the single largest margin in modern democratic history. The official results aren’t final yet, but he reportedly captured nearly 90% of the vote. That’s a massive jump from five years ago, when he received a little over 50% .
Outside of North Korea, you don’t see numbers like this very often. They sound way too high to be real. But in El Salvador, they’re not that surprising. All of the polls predicted precisely this outcome. There were massive parties in the streets celebrating Bukele’s re-election before it even happened. So, when Bukele was named the winner, everyone saw it coming. It made sense. There were no angry mobs storming parliament, alleging fraud or putting their feet up on some politician’s desk. Instead, this weekend, here’s what El Salvador looked like:
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