Academics, rights groups and opposition parties denounce irregularities in El Salvador electoral pro

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(7 Feb 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS San Salvador, El Salvador - 6 February 2024 1. Various of people walking on the streets of San Salvador 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lilina Hernandez, secretary: "He wants to continue what he has started, because if others arrive, it will no longer be the same. It is the people who will choose if they want him to continue. A dictatorship is when someone is put in power without having been elected by the people, he has been democratically elected." 3. Various of street market 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Escobar, political analyst: "What has already been achieved is to bend the electoral rules, to have the re-election already rehabilitated and what is missing to reach a dictatorship is to reform the constitution, to make a constitution to measure, ad hoc to the needs of the current power, then comes the indefinite re-election, they become entrenched in power, then comes a more acute attack against civil organizations, academia, church, press." 5. Various of journalists interviewing members of the opposition party Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andy Failer, President of Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) party: "We need to know the number of people who turned out to vote and the total number of votes that each political party obtained and this information is still hidden or is still in the ballot boxes because the Supreme Electoral Tribunal failed on election day." 7. Members of the press 8. A Nuevas Ideal (New Ideas) political banner 10. Various of Ruth Lopez, electoral lawyer, working on cell phone 11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ruth Lopez, electoral lawyer: "It has been noted how freedom of expression has been limited, and how public opinion has been controlled through the control of access to public information. In El Salvador, one of the elements that best demonstrates how citizens do not have access to their rights, beyond the rights related to due process, is precisely that they do not have the ability to know elements and evidence and data on public management." 12. Various of San Salvador STORYLINE: As Nayib Bukele continued to receive recognition from foreign governments for his re-election, and the opposition denounced irregularities in the electoral process, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal prepared to begin the final vote-by-vote count on Tuesday. The tribunal publicly acknowledged that the transmission system failed and that only 6,015 ballots of the presidential election could be digitalized, leaving 2,547 pending. None of the 8,562 ballots of the elections of deputies of Congress were entered, so it was agreed that the ballot boxes will be opened and each vote will be counted. Andy Failer, President of Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) party, supported the recount. "The Supreme Electoral Tribunal failed on election day," he said. With 70.2% of the presidential election ballots that were counted, Bukele received 83% of the votes, against 7% of his closest rival, Manuel Flores, the candidate of the ex-guerrilla Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Without the official result and based on an exit poll, Bukele assured that his Nuevas Ideas party had won 58 out of 60 deputies. In a ceremony that gathered thousands of his supporters in the Civic Plaza in the historic center of San Salvador on Sunday, and in the absence of an official result, Bukele proclaimed himself the winner. But for many, the high risks to the survival of democracy in El Salvador are high. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b0d11826eaba4219bc183edd382dd13f

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