Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters

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.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    724·
    10 months ago

    People on this site insist that we need to eliminate the Republican Party in the US, effectively making it a one-party system in a democracy.

    Doesn’t sound so bad now, does it?

    • bostonbananarama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Multi-party, new party…maybe…but single party, I’m not sure I’ve heard anyone advocate for that, certainly not a lot of people.

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      We don’t need to eliminate the Republican party, we just need to let it eliminate itself from a plethora of choice.

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      82·
      10 months ago

      We do need to eliminate the Republican party but that’s far from the only problem with US politics. Honestly, moving away from a first past the post voting system would force both Democrats and Republicans to do better, or get replaced by parties that better represent their constituency.

      • Sagifurius@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Research the Weimar Republic. Getting rid of first past the post, can have the opposite effect, giving the crazies more power than they would under first past. Fringe groups, especially left leaning, always want transferrable vote or proportional because that way they’d get more representation but they always seem to ignore it can backfire.

        • SolarMech@slrpnk.netEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Protip: Your argument has more weight if you use modern examples if you can find them, rather than the Weimar republic. Sounding like you are escalating to the end of Godwin’s law does not help your point.

          Which is annoying because I agree that it can backfire if done wrong.

          • Sagifurius@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Oh look, the socialist doesn’t like a working knowledge of recent history. Transferable vote systems and proportional aren’t all that that common. and an example of the possible results less than a hundred years ago isn’t irrelevant. I’ve looked at the systems before, and quite often the result of the formulas used is a majority of someone no one really wanted.