Bitcoin Advocate Nayib Bukele Gets Reelected With 85% of the Popular Vote
President Nayib Bukele, a pioneer in introducing the law that made bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, has been reelected as president of the country in the ballot completed on Sunday. The Latam leader, who will reportedly continue implementing bitcoin-related policies, won by a landslide, scoring 85% of the popular vote.
Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador, won the presidential election on Sunday by a landslide, an outcome that was predicted by mostly all local polls and reports. The leader, who has been vocal about his support of Bitcoin and introduced the disputed idea of establishing bitcoin as legal tender in a country for the first time, agglomerated the support of most of the Salvadoran society, scoring at least 85% of the popular vote.
Celebrating his victory, Bukele stated:
"We have won the presidential election with more than 85% of the votes and a minimum of 58 out of 60 deputies in the Assembly. A record in the entire democratic history of the world."
Furthermore, Bukele invited the Salvadoran people to celebrate the victory in the National Palace.
Felix Ulloa, vice-president of El Salvador, had declared that if Bukele won the presidential ballot by a landslide, he would deepen the application of bitcoin policies, like the program of giving passports to bitcoin entrepreneurs and the issuance of the Volcano bonds, that would provide part of the funding for the construction of Bitcoin City, a planned tax haven for crypto companies.
Even with the popular vote on his side, Bukele's reelection is surrounded by controversy, given that he received a leave of absence in 2023 to be able to be present at these elections as a candidate. A Bukele-controlled national tribunal established this was a requirement to be reelected back in 2021, a decision that was considered unconstitutional by his detractors.
Nonetheless, Stacy Herbert, director of the National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) of El Salvador, remarked on the historic victory for the world's democracy, informing that the previous all-time widest margin for a democratic election was 56.2% in Portugal in 1991.
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