Bukele's Electoral Triumph

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of El Salvador handed over to President Nayib Bukele his credentials as the winner of the presidential elections on February 4, ensuring that he was re-elected with the "spontaneous" and "massive" vote of his compatriots.

Bukele was re-elected for a second term "with the free, sovereign and spontaneous vote of the noble Salvadoran people, in absolute adherence to the popular will, massively and democratically expressed at the polls," said the president of the TSE, Dora Martínez, at the event performed at the National Theater in San Salvador.

The president attended the handover with the re-elected vice president Félix Ulloa, which was also attended by authorities, politicians, diplomats and deputies.

Bukele's new five-year term will begin on June 1.

Martínez said that the re-elections of Bukele and Ulloa are "covered" with "all political legitimacy."

While the president of the TSE gave her speech on stage, Bukele and his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez, listened attentively from a box.

After Martínez's intervention, the president went down to the stage and amidst applause he received his credentials as did Ulloa, and then both left without making speeches.

The vice president-elect, after leaving the theater, told reporters that the delivery of the credentials was the "crowning of a totally democratic, participatory process."

Favored by his crusade against gangs, Bukele obtained an overwhelming 84.65% of the votes, according to the official TSE count.

Meanwhile, his New Ideas party will continue to dominate Congress by winning 54 of 60 seats in the legislative elections, held on the same day.

Salvadorans will once again go to the polls to elect the mayors of 44 municipalities and 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament, with Bukele's party as the favorite.