On February 28, 2021, El Salvador will hold municipal and legislative elections amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Comments - Opinion. Between 1989 and 2019, El Salvador was governed first by the extreme-right Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA, and more recently … FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of … Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, speaks during a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Published 23 February 2021 . At just 37 years old, the candidate Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez became the youngest president in the history of El Salvador, achieving 53.1% of valid votes in the presidential elections. Elecciones 2021 El Salvador: Diputaciones a la Asamblea Legislativa, Parlamento Centroamericano e integrantes de Concejos Municipales Elections in El Salvador El Salvador Parliament 2021 El Salvador to Hold Parliamentary Elections on Sunday. President Nayib Bukele has been acting more and more like an authoritarian. Voting board members prepare for the elections, San Salvador, El Salvador, Feb. 22, 2021. The current mayor is Ernesto Muyshondt from ARENA who is seeking re-election. The marquee mayoral race is the competition for mayor of San Salvador, the capital and El Salvador's largest city. 10:31 AM . Feb 25, 2021 . If international travel has not resumed, independent election observers who have been a regular part of El Salvador's recent elections may not be present as one of the guarantors of transparency. El Salvador Election Could Remake Political Landscape. The elections in El Salvador could make or break Biden’s Central America policy. That could change Sunday when Salvadorans go to the polls in local and legislative elections that observers and surveys suggest could remake the country’s political landscape. El Salvador election could remake political landscape. | Photo: Twitter/ @TSEElSalvador. President Juan Orlando Hernández , who became Honduras’ first president to serve a second term after the Supreme Court ruled that reelection was constitutional in 2015, said he will not run again . Social Networks, the New Dominant Media. ... Feb. 25, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Nuevas Ideas, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s 2-year-old party, is expected to emerge from Sunday’s legislative and municipal elections with at least 60 percent of all congressional seats. By: The Associated Press. Issues such as an out-of-date electoral census and the lack of a presidential runoff remain unresolved heading into the 2021 election. There is no doubt that Nayib Bukele sees the 2021 elections as crucial for consolidating his hold on power. Muyshondt won the post in 2018 by a landslide after the FMLN expelled … Anger with the parties that ruled El Salvador for nearly three decades swept Bukele into office in 2019, and frustration remains.