IN VIVO: Bukele brinda press conference on elections

In a different panorama before the pandemic of COVID-19, El Salvador celebrates on February 28 the municipal and legislative elections for the period 2021-2024.

More than 5.3 million citizens are registered in the electorate. El Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) had for the first time 1,595 voting centers in the country and 4551 Juntas Receptoras de Votos (JRV).

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In this space you can follow the most relevant incidents of the electoral journal that commence with some retreats in some voting centers.

3:15 pm At the press conference, President Bukele said he had the mayor’s flu vote this February 28 and hizo a llama to vote for affidavits in Gobierno, now to be elected electoral silence.

3:00 pm The El Salvador Periodicals Association reports “15 injuries in periodic exercise related to opening in the voting centers”. Aggregates that “the restrictions carried out in its majority by the National Civil Police (PNC)” which are “accompanied by Article 63 of the Electoral Code which establish that the means of communication have the faculty to cover all proceedings” .

14:50 The Deputy President of the Legislative Assembly, Mario Ponce, and candidate for reelection, cast his vote at the Luis Pastor Argueta School Center, in Cojutepeque, Cuscatlán.

14:40. President Nayib Bukele holds a press conference from a capital hotel, previews his vote, gives a speech to the people and salutes the issue. “Aún hay tiempo”, manifested el mandatario.

14:05 pm Adán Perdomo, who is looking for his opinion on the Ilopango municipality, will vote.

13:50 At the Nahuilingo Colón de Escolar Escolar Colón de Nahuilingo, there are lists of data transmission teams that will be joining the JRV at 17:00 when the voting issue day closes. The crews have to pay to work for three hours in the event of an accident, explains Gladys de Castro, member of the transmission team.

The atmosphere of voters in the Center Escolar Cristóbal Colón de Nahuilingo, in Sonsonate. Photo / Magdalena Reyes

13:40 Fiscal Raúl Melara’s statement on Twitter about the attention in the voting centers.

13:15 Agustina Pérez, 89, assisted at the polling station located at the typical road of the indigenous community that was resisting to appear in the municipality of Nahuizalco, in Sonsonate. “Yo vine a voter porque es mi deber y un principio, vote por mi sangre y porque es importante”, dijo la octogenaria que llegó acompañada del menor de sus siete hijos.

13:05 Alcaldesa de Santa Ana and candidate for election by ARENA, Milena de Escalón, issue his vote at the INSA voting center.

13:00. Mario Durán, candidate for the San Salvador Alcalde for New Ideas, voted for the Manuel José Arce National Institute, at the Model Barrier, in San Salvador.

12:30 pm Some young people in San Miguel manifest that prefer the vote on the rostrum, then in such a way as to elect the persons with whom they identify.

12:05 pm In Guaymango, Ahuachapán, before the voting months are installed, some violations will be heard in the first hours of the month. One of them is the protagonist Osiris Luna, Director-General of the Penal Centers and Deputy Minister of Justice, who was sent to enter the voting center next to other members of New Ideas and intervene in the installation of the JRV without being involved hello, this is a public message from 106.9 FM radio and su cuenta de Twitter.

Militants from the party entered the force at the voting center. Video shared by: @arpassv

12:00 pm Following the prohibition on removing nines from the COVID-19 voting centers, it was observed that some citizens would attend the polls under the auspices of the minority.

11:50 am Supporters of New Ideas and the candidate for the Alcaldia of Santa Ana, Gustavo Acevedo, regalaban shirts with the logo of the aspirant in the commune to the people who assisted in the voting center in the school Rafael Álvarez Lalinde.

11:45 am. Integrators of a Junta Receptora de Votes (JRV) of the Zacamil parvularia, in Mejicanos, denounce that they have no sufficient equipment for them. The majority of JRV only has one month.

11:35 am Miguel Pereira, who was looking for his San Miguel alkection by the FMLN, issued his vote at the Fe y Alegría center.

11:30 am The United States Embassy Negotiator, Brendan O’Brien, recruited the Voting Center at the Concha Vide de Escalón school, where he governs to support fair, transparent elections. Sostuvo: “It is vital that the election gives all the votes cast. What we want to see is passion in the process. In veces the results toman tiempo ”.

11:20 am The fiscal general, Raúl Melara, informed the un sospechoso information by fraud voters and the La Unión department. According to an indication, a person voting in an electoral center does not vote for the tobacconist to emit his suffrage.

11:05 a.m. The Salvador Alcalde and whoever was looking for the ARENA rehearsal, Ernesto Muyshondt, went to the Concha Vide de Escalón voting center to emit the suffrage. Muyshondt says he hopes the governor will not use the Police and Forced Armed Forces with fines.

11:00 The salvadoreño Joaquín López stood for almost 15 minutes after tinting his markers. Denounce the poor quality of the product.

10:50 am International irregularities are observed in the Central School of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, in the Zacamil colony, in the Mejicanos. The delegates Adamaris Silva and Nancy Flores, Mexican proceedings, signaled that the police and personnel of the voting center did not prioritize the entry of the mayoral adults to own the vote and that he had received it from a political party that was responsible for propaganda.

10:50 am The Margarita Escobar deputy, who was looking for the ARENA vote, voted in the Escalar Concha Escola School Center, but at the moment he has voted to remove the esquina from one of the slides, for which he or she will cancel another slice.

10:40 am In the Centro Escolar Romero Albergue haoi filas afuera y dentro del colegio elections. Hubo desucerdos en algunas de las Juntas Receptoras de Votos (JRV) para abrir las urnas.

10:30 am At the National Institute of Commerce (Inco), in Salvador hubo retreats to start with the electoral journal and does not respect the physical distance.

10:20 am The presidential candidate Carlos Calleja went to the polling station located in the Hippodrome Boulevard: “The vote is the best vote for democracy”.

10:15 am. Guaymango voters will drop by the school center gate on Tuesday.

10:10 am ARENA’s deputy Norman Quijano will issue his vote at the Sagrado Corazón Collegio’s voting center.

10:00 a.m. The candidate for the San Miguel Alcaldia by New Ideas Will Salgado and his German aspirant in the election to a GANA Numan election will vote in municipal and legislative elections.

9:55 a.m. Asi saw the ambiance at the Hippodrome Boulevard Voting Center in San Salvador, giving voters hours of hours to perform.

The voting receivers at the Bulevar del Hipódromo abrieron with great regression, approximately at 9am.

9:45 am The Hippodrome Boulevard Voting Center, in San Salvador, opened to the city with two hours of retreat.

9:30 am Ernesto Sanabria, Secretary of the Presidency of El Salvador, was appointed by the Civil National Police to violate the Electoral Code and intends to take a photograph of his ballot paper.

09:00 Voters are agglomerating at the Monseñor Romero Vocational Capacity Center, at Ciudad Arce, La Libertad.

8:45 am At the Juana López Voting Center, in Ciudad Delgado, there is no doubt that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the citizens have argued that they should resort to the ancient method of summarizing the deduction in the indelible ink.

A voter sums up the deduction in the indelible ink ante the lack of hippos in the voting center of the Center Escolar Juan López. Photo / Menly Cortez

8:30 am. I have at least 20 people who will receive capacities to comply with the JRV at the Thomas Jefferson Voting Center, in Sonsonate, will not receive the official credentials to install.

7:30 am International observers meet in the various voting centers.

7:20 am Some citizens will hope for the opening of voting centers.

7:15 am The adult adults are among the first to vote this February 28th.

7:00 The mayor of abreast voting centers opens its gates to the citizens aptos to emit the suffrage, some hicieron con retrasos.