The fiery president of El Salvador will no longer need to invest Parliament with armed men to force deputies to pass his laws, as he did a year ago. On Sunday, the party created by Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas), won the legislative elections with a real tidal wave. The polls, then the first projections (the final results are expected later this week), credited him with around 65% of the vote, enough to hold the unicameral assembly of 84 members. And to afford the majority, or even the qualified two-thirds majority, necessary to adopt constitutional reforms.
The 39-year-old man, nicknamed “The millennial president”, should thus be able to do without a pact with the Great Alliance for National Unity (Gana, center right), its former formation, which …
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