El Salvador 2024 electoral-type events: Presidential and Legislative (Feb. 4), Locals (Mar. 3)

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

dictator or not, he has been immensely successful in bringing down murder/crime rates. It is one the fastest plunges in homicide rates the world has ever seen.

He is using the power of the state to go after criminals and gangsters. He isn't using the power of the state to go after marginalized or vulnerable minority groups.

Gangsters and anyone who vaguely seems like a gangster, of course. And journalists.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

dictator or not, he has been immensely successful in bringing down murder/crime rates. It is one the fastest plunges in homicide rates the world has ever seen.

He is using the power of the state to go after criminals and gangsters. He isn't using the power of the state to go after marginalized or vulnerable minority groups.

Gangsters and anyone who vaguely seems like a gangster, of course. And journalists.

A problem is that a lot of his critics focus on the treatment of prisioners when that's one of the most popular Bukele policies with lay people. The lack of a due process and the limitations of freedom of press are overlooked.
Bukele has a big popularity right now on the region. He is more praised by the right, but I'm pretty sure the average working class left leaning latino has a good image of him too. I'm pretty sure the average Castillo voter wpuld like Bukele style prisons in Peru.

The average Castillo voter probably thinks he did nothing wrong a year ago and thinks he should still be president.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Have any results been released for legislative seats or results by department? I'm curious to see how genuine the results are or if there are any patterns of opposition.

I also want to add looking at the results and different media coverage, the sheer amount of support and defensiveness for Bukele online is really absurd. I think it is commendable to bring down murder rates and make El Salvador safe, but I'm shocked at how defensive people seem to be to any criticism of this man.

It’s a cult of personality.