El Salvador: anti-corruption candidate Nayib Bukele wins presidential election

Source: Guardian

Nayib Bukele, a former mayor of El Salvador’s capital, has won a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election, winning more votes than his two closest rivals combined to end a quarter of a century of two-party dominance in the crime-plagued Central America nation.

He stood on an anti-corruption platform and campaigned on the slogan: “There’s enough money when no one steals.”

All four candidates had promised to end corruption, stamp out gang violence and create more jobs, with crushing crime at the top of the agenda. About 67,000 Salvadorans belong to gangs that terrorise their communities with extortion, murder and other forms of violence.

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