World judge William Wellman The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) said this Sunday evening that results presented by President Nayib Bukele declaring himself the winner of the presidential election They are not official.

“We are the ones who give official results” He responded to reporters when asked whether the percentages managed by Bukele are official or not. “We are the arbiters,” he emphasized.

Wellman noted, “We intend to provide official findings as the investigation progresses” and “anything said outside of here is not official.” until we confirm it.”

Before the first official verification data, which took four and a half hours, became known, Bukele celebrated his victory and He began to receive congratulations from the foreign ministries of neighboring countries.

Panama, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Peru were the first countries to recognize Bukele’s victory.

Upon careful study, 31.49% of protocols The preliminary result of the presidential election provides an overwhelming victory for President and re-election candidate Nayib Bukele. 1,295,888 votes for his New Ideas (NI) party.

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This figure is far ahead Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left), 110,244.and the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena right) – 96,700, according to data published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which must be ratified in the final audit.

Just two hours after the polls closed and ballots began to be counted, Bukele declared himself the winner of the elections. a process which he classified as an unofficial “referendum” on its mandate.

“According to our numbers, we won the presidential election with more than 85% of votes and at least 58 of the 60 deputies of the Assembly,” he published in X.

If the data is confirmed, Bukele will become the first president of El Salvador to be re-elected despite a constitutional ban, as the country emerged from years of military dictatorship and entered democracy.

(according to information from EFE)