SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Populist President Nayib Bukele appears to have won overwhelming control of El Salvador’s unicameral congress, ending a two-year standoff with legislators of the old parties that have dominated politics in the Central American country since the end of the 1980-1992 civil war. Bukele wrote that Salvadorans “have waited 40 years for this.” A preliminary count of about 80% of votes from Sunday’s elections showed Bukele’s New Ideas party and a coalition partner winning several times as many votes as the established political parties, the conservative National Republican Alliance and the leftist Farabundo Marti Liberation Front.
