Compare the electoral turnout of this election with the last new elections.
Since the legislative and municipal elections since 1994, he has rounded up, and promedio, 44% participation. For the current legislative elections of 28 February will have a participation rate of 51%. What supersedes the passing legislative elections.
At the first conference of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) behind the center of voting centers, the president of the TSE, Dora Martínez, said: La pandemia no fue pretext ”.
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And it is that in the last legislative election of 2018 has a participation of 45.73% which in comparison with this election means an increase of 6 percentage points.
The lucrative voting centers of Temprano with large number of voters; It is a fact that this is a product of the biosecurity media installed in the entrances of the voting centers.
But without embarrassment, the TSE announced an increase in election participation.
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The Department of Political Studies of the Salvadoran Foundation for the Economic and Social Development (FUSADES) published an analysis of electoral participation in July 2020 and summarizes the behavior of the electorate at the moment:
The first one took place between 1994 and 2003, and does not coincide with the celebration of presidential elections and the fact that it produces a “arrest effect and a mayoral participation of the electorate”. The second moment is based on the restoration of the Unique Identity Document (DUI) as a voter identification and rehabilitation tool.
While the low electoral turnout of 2018 is the result of a “disintegration of voters to elect their representatives; the lack of confidence in political parties and dissatisfaction with the democratic system.