The President-elect of El Salvador, 37-year old Nayib Bukele and his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez were in Santo Domingo this week and met with President Danilo Medina at the Presidential Palace. President Danilo Medina received the President-elect accompanied by Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta, and legal advisor to the President, Flavio Darío Espinal.
Afterward, the President-elect visited the mayor of Santo Domingo, 43-year old David Collado, who many are encouraging to seek the presidency.
Bukele is due to be sworn into the Presidency on 1 June 2019. He was elected on 3 February 2019. Prior to his appointment, Bukele was major of the capital city of El Salvador, San Salvador.
Bukele is the first candidate since 1984 to have been elected President in El Salvador who is not a member of one of the two majority political parties. He stood in the elections representing the Grand Alliance for National Unity (Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional – GANA) and received 1,434,856 votes (53.10%).
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17 April 2019