Nayib Bukele

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Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who became the 46th and current President of El Salvador after winning the 2019 election.

He took office on 1 June 2019.

Nayib Bukele ran as the candidate of the centre-right GANA party and became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) to not have been elected as the candidate of one of the country's two major political parties, the FMLN and ARENA. He was previously elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán on 11 March 2012.

He was also elected mayor of San Salvador on 1 March 2015, and took office on 1 May 2015.

He contested and won the elections to both public offices under the banner of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front party.Escazú Agreement is expected to be signed by Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador during the World Climate Action Summit on September 23rd, addressing his commitment to work for the environment.

Early life and education

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador. He is a son of Armando Bukele Kattán and Olga Ortez de Bukele. According to The Times of Israel, Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem and Bethlehem while his maternal grandmother was Catholic and his maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox. His father later converted to Islam and became an imam.

Bukele studied law at the Central American University, but later ended his studies and founded his first company at age 18. According to a 2017 article in the digital newspaper El Faro, Bukele owned Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador. He was also the director and president of OBERMET, S.A. DE C.V. in 2011.

Personal life

Bukele was born into a Christian household, although his father converted to Islam later in life. As the son of a Muslim father and a Christian mother, Bukele's religious beliefs were a controversial subject in the 2019 election, with an image surfacing showing Bukele praying at the mosque in Mexico City. In February 2018, The Times of Israel published an image of Bukele "in deep reflection at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City."

Bukele has publicly stated he considers himself a believer in God first rather than religion. In a 2015 interview he said that "I am not a person who believes much in the liturgy of religions. However, I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I believe in his word, I believe in his word revealed in the Holy Bible. And I know that God does not reject anyone because of their origins."

He married Gabriela Rodríguez, a psychologist and educator, on 6 December 2014. In 2018, Bukele told the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, that Rodríguez has "Jewish-Sephardic blood". The couple has one child, named Layla, who was born during Bukele's presidency in August 2019.

Bukele promised to sanction bus carriers that increase the rates established by law. Elements of the Police were deployed in different parts of the country to guarantee compliance with the regulations. During his presidential campaign, Bukele proposed the construction of a new airport in the east of the country to relieve congestion from El Salvador's main airport and bring an economic boost to the country's east. On 26 April 2022, the Legislative Assembly passed a law to begin construction of the Airport of the Pacific and the Train of the Pacific. The new rail network will be 332 miles (535 kilometers) long, and the new airport will be 126,530 square feet (11,755 square meters) in size in La Unión.

Bukele is a right-wing populist. He has stated that he opposes abortion, including in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother's life is at risk. Bukele has stated: "I think, in the end, in the future, we're going to realize that [abortion] is a great genocide that we’ve committed." Bukele has stated that he is opposed to same-sex marriage and believes marriage is between "a man and woman." In September 2021, Bukele stated that the Legislative Assembly would not decriminalize abortion, legalize same-sex marriage, or legalize euthanasia in any potential constitutional reforms.

In an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Bukele attributed mass emigration from Central America to the United States to the region's "lack of economic opportunity" and "lack of security," and described the status quo as "immoral," arguing that emigration not only strains the United States, but also impedes domestic efforts to improve living conditions in El Salvador. In an interview with VICE News' Krishna Andavolu shortly after his inauguration, Bukele stated, "I share the same concern President Trump [has with] immigration, but for different reasons. [...] He doesn't want our people to go; I don't want our people to leave."

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Early political career

He was elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán, part of the Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front (FMLN), winning 5,782 votes (46.6 percent), defeating the weakened Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which gained 2,785 votes (46.67%). He took office on May 1st, 2012.

During his mayorship, he provided Nuevo Cuscatlán's adults with a monthly basket to meet basic nutritional requirements. Nuevo Cuscatlán had around 12 homicides a year before Bukele took office, but only one homicide was reported during his three-year term. He also gave scholarships to all youths with a GPA over 3.5 to attend any university in El Salvador, in the hopes that such prestigious awards for academic excellence would help combat juvenile crime. Throughout his time in Nuevo Cuscatlán, he contributed his salary to the scholarships he was offering for youth. Bukele unveiled a new boulevard on January 21, 2015, linking Nuevo Cuscatlán and Huizán. With support from ALBA Petróleos, a Venezuelan oil company owned by PDVSA, Bukele completed a majority of his tenure as mayor.

In the municipal elections of 2015, he gained the mayoralty of San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, representing a coalition of the FMLN and the Salvadoran Progressive Party (PSP), which received 89,164 votes (50.7 percent of total). In a National Coalition Party coalition (PCN), his biggest challenger, businessman and former ARENA deputy Edwin Zamora, received only 819,288 votes (46.4 percent). During the previous six years, the latter group had ruled the area. On May 1, 2015, Bukele took office.

When taking office, Bukele changed the names of two street in San Salvador: Calle Mayor Roberto D'Aubuisson to Call San Antonio A La V'a and Boulevard Colonel José Arturo Castellanos to Boulevard Venezuela. Both names were changed by his predecessor, Norman Quijano, who ordered the assassination of Archbishop scar Romero in 1980 and created ARENA in 1981, the former being named after Colonel José Castellanos Contreras, who saved 40,000 Jews from the Holocaust in Central Europe by giving them fake Salvadoran passports. With the relocation of street vendors, Bukele began his "revitalization" of San Salvador, which was welcomed by the public and the media. He also built the Cuscatlán Market and San Salvador's first municipal library.

In February 2017, Bukele visited Taipei, Taiwan's capital, and met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to "enhance" the sister city relationship between San Salvador and Taipei. He attended the 32nd International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem, where he was seen praying at the Western Wall and announcing that his wife's grandfather was a Sephardic Jew. Bukele brushed up San Salvador's historic center by adding highways, renovating buildings, and rebuilding electric and telecommunication lines, all costing about $5.7 million.

On October 10, 2017, Bukele was barred from the FMLN, despite the FMLN Ethics Tribunal's decision to promote internal divisions within the organization, verbally and physically chastising incumbent FMLN President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and publicly chastising incumbent FMLN President Salvador Sánchez Cerén's actions against the political party. The FMLN Ethics Tribunal did not attend the hearing scheduled for 7 October 2017 by a Bukele, who argued that they were biased in favour of the plaintiffs. In the upcoming 2018 legislative election, the FMLN lost 20 municipalities and eight seats in the Legislative Assembly. Any political analysts have speculated that the failures were due in part to Bukele's removal from the FMLN.

Following Bukele's expulsion from the FMLN, his aspirations for 2019 began as an outsider who opposes the new political system. He had wanted to run for president as a member of the FMLN, but opposition from the party's leadership barred him from doing so. He formed Nuevas Ideas ("New Ideas") with the intention of making it a political party in which he might run for president of El Salvador as a candidate.

Following his declaration of his presidential aspirations, he was criticized by both the ruling FMLN party and ARENA on the political right, as they prevented him from finding his own political party and officially canceled any group that had attempted to use for his candidacy, as well as Democratic Change. His effort to run with the party came to an end when the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) effectively ended the party. Bukele later joined the center-right Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) party to mount his presidential campaign.

Bukele declared on February 3 that he had won the presidential elections with a flutter. Carlos Calleja of the ARENA and Hugo Martez of the FMLN conceded defeat. He obtained 53% of the vote, thereby eliminating the need for a run-off election. He is the first presidential candidate since the Salvadoran Civil War, and he does not represent either of the major two sides. "Today we have turned the page on the postwar period," he said in his acceptance address.

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