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Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial president, attacked Spanish colonialism and imperialism in a fiery victory speech after he won a landslide victory.
Amid claims he is turning the country into a dictatorship, he boasted to flag-waving crowds below the presidential palace that El Salvador would be the first country with “a one-party system in a democracy”.
“The entire opposition together was pulverised,” Mr Bukele, who once styled himself the “world’s coolest dictator”, told the cheering masses.
The baseball cap-wearing Mr Bukele, 42, has become vastly popular for his war on gangs, but he has also been accused of stifling the courts and silencing opposition.
In his speech he said a Spanish journalist had recently asked him why he wants to dismantle democracy.
I had to find out how accurate that quote was, since everyone who writes about this guy mentions the coolest dictator thing.
He did write that, in Spanish, on his Twitter bio.
“The coolest dictator of the world globally”
“Del mundo mundial” on Spanish is a common phrase (mostly used by children) to say “of the world”. If you want to translate literally, it would be more like “of the worldly world”.
So same sentiment as “in the whole wide world” maybe?
At least he knows he’s not the coolest in the universe.
Ppl have no sense of irony anymore.
He was first called dictator, this is his humoristic response. Wake up!
Wake up?
:/