The President of El Salvador, of Palestinian origin, Najib Bukele, announced that he had won a second presidential term after obtaining more than 85% of the votes, making him the first president of El Salvador to be elected for a second term of 5 years in nearly 100 years.

Najib Bukela wrote on his page on the social networking site “X” on Sunday: “According to our numbers, we won the presidential elections with more than 85% of the votes,” before launching fireworks minutes later in the capital, San Salvador.

According to Agence France-Presse, more than 6.2 million voters, including more than 740,000 abroad, went to the polls. The campaign of the President of El Salvador, of Palestinian origin, on drugs and criminal gangs has led to an increase in his popularity in the country.

Five years ago, Najib Bukela was able to win the presidential elections for the first time, and his victory as president of El Salvador at that time was considered a political earthquake, given that he was a candidate from outside the two largest major parties that had been accustomed to alternating power since the end of the civil war in the country in 1992.

The President of El Salvador, of Palestinian origin, is considered a politician and businessman. He was born on July 24, 1981 in the city of San Salvador in the Republic of El Salvador. He worked at an early age, not exceeding 19 years, in the field of entrepreneurship, then headed to political work in 2012.

The origins of the President of El Salvador are Palestinian

Bukele has a Palestinian father whose origins go back to the city of Bethlehem. He is the influential Christian doctor and businessman Ermando Bukele Qattan, who later converted to Islam and then became the imam of a mosque in El Salvador, which he built near his textile factory.

While his mother is Salvadoran Olga Ortaz, he has 3 brothers: Youssef, Karim, and Ibrahim. The President of El Salvador, of Palestinian origin, married Salvadoran Gabriela Rodriguez in 2015.

While his father died in 2017, that is, two years before he assumed the presidency of the country, he turned to entrepreneurship to follow in his father’s footsteps and succeeded in his field.