# Bukele wins the 2019 presidential election Date: 2019 ## The fact On 3 February 2019 [Nayib Bukele](/people/nayib-bukele) won El Salvador’s presidential election in the first round for GANA, before Nuevas Ideas fully held the Assembly. ## Context FMLN and Arena sat as the old parties. Neighbouring 1 June oath is the child. 1 June 2019 oath is the child. Soldiers 2020 is later. The President of El Salvador heads the executive, commands the armed forces, and can request a state of exception that the Legislative Assembly must approve and extend. He does not write a Constitutional Chamber judgment by himself, an IMF board decision, or a [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designation. The Assembly, PNC, Fiscalía, and prison service share specific files. A homicide print is not a unique due-process coefficient. Gang membership is not proven by detention alone. ## Evidence and sources Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed first-round rotation after two-party dominance is a dated contest instrument. ## What is established and what is not Established: 3 February 2019 first-round victory, independently reported and certified. Not established: that the 2021 chamber purge was thereby written, or a unique later homicide coefficient from that Sunday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The TSE certified. FMLN and Arena lost. He won.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Bukele wins the 2019 presidential election, not a later speech about Bukele wins the 2019 presidential election. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Bukele wins the 2019 presidential election on 2019-02-03 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Bukele wins the 2019 presidential election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. The TSE certified. FMLN and Arena lost. He won. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Nayib Bukele: https://factrail.ai/people/nayib-bukele ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-elsalvador-election-idUSKCN1PS0N1 - https://www.tse.gob.sv/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sv-election-2019