Nayib Bukele

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Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born July 24, 1981 in San Salvador ) is a Salvadoran politician ( GANA ) and entrepreneur . From 2015 to 2018 he was mayor of San Salvador. He has been President of the country since June 1, 2019 .

Early life

Bukele is the son of Olga Ortez de Bukele and Armando Bukele Kattán, a well-known businessman of Christian- Palestinian descent who later converted to Islam and practiced as an imam . Nayib Bukele himself claims that he does not belong to any religious community.

At the age of 18, Bukele was already running a company. Nayib Bukele is the owner of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador. He was also the director and president of OBERMET, SA DE CV

Political career

Bukele was elected Mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán on March 11, 2012 . He stood for the left party Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).

In the local elections of 2015, he won the mayoral election of San Salvador , the capital of El Salvador. He represented a coalition of the FMLN with the PSP and received 89,164 votes (50.37% of the total). Its main challenger, businessman and former MP Edwin Zamora, ARENA received 82,288 votes (46.49%). The ARENA party had ruled the city for the previous six years. Nayib Bukele took office on May 1, 2015.

On October 10, 2017, Nayib Bukele was expelled from the FMLN; the party's ethics tribunal accused him of promoting internal division and carrying out defamatory acts against the political party.

As mayor of the capital, he had succeeded in pacifying the dangerous center of San Salvador. He also had new ideas for dealing with criminal youth gangs that terrorize many cities in the country. Bukele did not want to take action against them with the police and the military, but with preventive measures.

After Bukele's expulsion from the FMLN, his efforts focused on participating in the 2019 presidential election as an independent representative who opposed the current political system. He started the movement Nuevas Ideas (German: New Ideas) with the aim of turning it into a political party in which he could run as a candidate for the presidency of El Salvador.

After the announcement of his presidential aspirations, Bukele was politically opposed by both the ruling FMLN party, the political left, and the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) on the right. For the presidential campaign, he stood for the center-right Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (GANA) party, which was controversial as it was viewed as a betrayal of his progressive ideals. His campaign claims that joining an existing party is the only remaining option for running a presidential campaign.

On February 3, 2019, Bukele was elected President of El Salvador with 53.8% . He prevailed in the first ballot against Carlos Calleja (ARENA, 32%) and Hugo Martínez (FMLN. 15%). Bukele took office on June 1, 2019, and the term of office lasts until 2024.

At the beginning of his tenure, Bukele formulated a security plan with which he would like to prevent the influence of organized crime ( maras ). As of June 2020, Bukele can point to successes in the fight against violence, which is important for El Salvador, because the high murder rate in the country has more than halved; Political observers suspect a secret agreement between the government and gangs, as it was in 2013 under a previous government.

At the beginning of February 2020, he let the military march into parliament in order to persuade the MPs to quickly approve a loan to finance the security forces.

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic , he had the borders closed, announced a rigid curfew, which was controlled by the police and the army and had those who disobey them taken to detention centers. In April the Constitutional Court ruled that such arbitrary arrests, thousands of whom, according to Amnesty International, were unconstitutional. He promised immediate financial aid for families in need.

Political assessment

After taking office, the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia classified Bukele as a representative of a “new type of populism” that was “neither right nor left”. His political style evokes hope in many Salvadorans and increases the self-esteem of a country “traumatized” by civil war and instability. On the part of the opposition, Bukele is accused of an authoritarian style of leadership and a restriction of basic democratic rights, which has worsened in the Covid 19 pandemic.

literature

Web links

Commons : Nayib Bukele  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raphael Ahren: His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador's new leader. In: The Times of Israel . February 7, 2019, Retrieved June 16, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Polémica por pictures de Bukele en oración dentro de una mezquita. In: elmundo.sv. January 8, 2019, accessed June 16, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ http://www.contrapunto.com.sv/nacionales/politica/nayib-bukele-el-capitalista-mas-popular-de-la-izquierda-salvadorena . Contrapunto.com.sv. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Gabriel Labrador: El FMLN abre la puerta grande a Nayib Bukele . In: El Faro , August 20, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Biografía . In: Nayib Bukele . Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Elecciones El Salvador 2012 - Concejos Municipales - LA LIBERTAD - NUEVO CUSCATLAN . Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ FMLN expulsa a Bukele del partido , El Diario de Hoy. Retrieved October 11, 2017. 
  8. ↑ Nayib Bukele, expulsado del FMLN por estas razones , La Prensa Gráfica. Retrieved October 11, 2017. 
  9. ↑ a b c d e Martin Reischke: El Salvador's President Bukele - From Hope to Autocrat? In: Deutschlandfunk. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  10. ^ El futuro de Nuevas Ideas y situación de la Alcaldía . In: Nayib Bukele , May 14, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018. 
  11. ↑ 37-year-old becomes the new president . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 4, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 16, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Chris Klänie: El Salvador: Nayib Bukele wins presidency in the first ballot. February 7, 2019, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ El Salvador's new president promises “fight against every wall”. Der Standard, June 1, 2019, accessed the same day.
  14. ↑ BBC News Mundo: 3 strategies con las que Bukele pretende hacer frente a las pandillas en El Salvador (y cuán novedosas son) . June 20, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed July 10, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Andy Robinson: Nayib Bukele, en el corazón de las tinieblas. In: La Vanguardia . July 27, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ Corona in El Salvador: Bukele robs our basic rights
predecessor Office successor
Salvador Sánchez Cerén President of El Salvador
since 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bukele, Nayib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukele Ortez, Nayib Armando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran politician of GANA
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH San Salvador