The consortium of organizations and private universities Observa 2024 pointed out this Sunday that the presidential and legislative elections, in which the president seek immediate re-election despite the constitutional prohibition, they have had a “relatively normal development”.

“From the information obtained, it is observed that there is a relatively normal development of the election day on February 4”, he indicated in his first report.

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However, he warned that there were “violations of specific procedural provisions, related to the period prior to the start of citizen voting”.

The consortium also noted “the record of military presence in an important part of the centers observed”.

They called the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) “a promote compliance with all the procedures contemplated in the electoral legislation for the normal development of the day”.

In its first preliminary report, this consortium indicated that 85.2% of the voting centers in which it has observers opened the polls at the designated time.

Before reaching the middle of the day, which will close at 17:00 local time (23:00 GMT), the representatives of the main opposition parties, Nationalist Republican Alliance (Sand, right) and Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left), pointed out irregularities.

The president of Arena, Carlos Saadedenounced in a video broadcast on the social networkonly with staff New ideas”, the ruling party, and indicated that “staff who have been trained have been left out”.

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For her part, the FMLN deputy and candidate for Congress, Anabel Bellosoalso pointed out that the ruling New Ideas party “imposed” to his staff at voting meetings in “complicity with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Prosecutor’s Office”.

“Such bullying is not possible“wrote the parliamentarian on her account on the social network X.

Nayib Bukele42 years old, is the big favorite in these elections in which five candidates from opposition parties also compete, including Sand and of FMLNwith practically no chance of victory, according to the polls.

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