Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial president, attacked Spanish colonialism and imperialism in a fiery victory speech after he won a landslide victory.
Amid claims he is turning the country into a dictatorship, he boasted to flag-waving crowds below the presidential palace that El Salvador would be the first country with “a one-party system in a democracy”.
“The entire opposition together was pulverised,” Mr Bukele, who once styled himself the “world’s coolest dictator”, told the cheering masses.
The baseball cap-wearing Mr Bukele, 42, has become vastly popular for his war on gangs, but he has also been accused of stifling the courts and silencing opposition.
In his speech he said a Spanish journalist had recently asked him why he wants to dismantle democracy.
So it’s better to be ruled by gangs than a dictator?
The people who were afraid to leave their homes that can now go outside made the wrong decision by electing a government to solve their problems?
Or, more realistically, you’re too indoctrinated to understand how their real problems are more important than your philosophical ones.
Oh no! Somebody think of the gangbangers!
The fuck are you talking about?
You’re replying to things I didn’t say. Are you hearing voices or something?
Try again. Do better.