Talk:2024 Salvadoran presidential election

Copy editing notes

Hi there, I'm copy editing this article as part of the GOCE March 2023 Drive. Pinging @PizzaKing13, who made the request.

Just dropping off some quick notes from the start of my copy edit!

Clarify: will all voting be electronic?

• Electronic voting is scheduled to begin in January 2024.
  • Only electronic voting, ballots occur on the dates in the infobox.

Clarify: 30% in each category or 30% overall? I think adding "each" or "total" could clarify either way.

• Per article 38 of the Law of Political Parties (Ley de Partidos Políticos), at least 30 percent of a party's candidates for the legislative, municipal, and PARLACEN elections must be women.
  • Added total

Can this be updated? i.e., remove wording that implies this is dated, as it's now confirmed

• As of November 2022, twelve political parties are eligible to participate, an increase of two from 2021. The twelve political parties are:
  • Should be good to remove

Clarify wording: don't use "be eligible" in place of register (if this is the case)

• Salvadoran citizens over the age of 18 living in El Salvador have until 7 August 2023 to be eligible to vote, while those living outside of the country have until 5 November 2023 to register.
  • Changed to register

Not copy editing, but I found this article that El Salvador could be added to: Right of expatriates to vote in their country of origin. I didn't link to it as it's not super in-depth and El Salvador's not (currently) in it.

References

Wracking ^💬 22:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

• I'll probably add El Salvador to the page later.

@Wracking: Thanks for the comments so far on the copy edit. PizzaKing13 ^¡Hablame! 07:44, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

@PizzaKing13 I see now that the page is linked in the lead! (I'm saving the lead until the end of my copy edit.) Wracking ^💬 19:05, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Copy editing notes 2

Here are the remainder of my notes for my copy edit! Most of these are explanations for content removal, but there's also some more general notes. As always, let me know if there are any issues or questions that arise. Pinging @PizzaKing13, who requested the copy edit.

I removed this sentence, as it's not related to the paragraph/section (expatriate and electronic voting, and allegations of fraud) and its interpretation of the source is tenuous at best. The phrase "lo que Nuevas Ideas intente robar a los votantes" ("what Nuevas Ideas plans to steal from the voters") is (1) not core to the article and (2) does not necessarily imply that the author thinks NI is engaging in election fraud.

• Federico Hernández Aguilar, a columnist for La Prensa Gráfica, claimed that Nuevas Ideas was going to "steal" from voters, and that if the country's political opposition failed to compete in the election, it would "leave the path open" for Bukele's reelection.

I removed this section of text; it could be repurposed elsewhere, but it's not relevant to a section about polling.

• According to polling conducted CIESCA and TResearch shortly after Bukele's announcement of reelection campaign, a large majority of Salvadorans support Bukele's reelection bid,including René Merino Monroy, the Minister of National Defense of El Salvador, and José Luis Escobar Alas, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador.

I deleted several charts for opinion polling, as they don't add any information not provided by the tables. If there is more opinion polling done in the future—enough to necessitate switching a table for a graph—then I think the graphs could come back. The graph I've left (Bukele re-election polling) needs some improvements. I think it needs a title, a legend, and preferably the "Bukele announces re-election bid" text wouldn't be running vertically.

Something to keep an eye on in this article is the use of names and making sure not to leave the reader confused. Generally, I erred towards giving full names of individuals, even when they had been mentioned prior. Especially with names like Ortiz, of which there are a few in this article, it's important to clarify.

A lot of the quotes weren't quotes, but translations. I either removed quotation marks or added the original quote as well. See MOS:FOREIGNQUOTE.

An example of why it's really important to be careful about translating sources, and especially important to be careful when putting those translation in quotation marks:

• Carlos Araujo, a former 2021 ARENA deputy candidate, stated that there is "no doubt that Bukele will be re-elected", citing his high approval rating and claiming that the government has "installed a dictatorship".
• Araujo didn't say that Bukele's instituted a dictatorship—he basically said the opposite. The author of the source article (not Araujo) wrote, "Araujo ha dado un giro a su postura, como lo hicieron al unísono varios opositores al no poder contener más la mentira de que los salvadoreños viven atemorizados y que el país ha instaurado una dictadura," which I'll translate as "Araujo has reversed his position, along with several opposition members, when he could no longer sustain the lie that Salvadorans live in fear and that the country has established a dictatorship." I assume this is where the claim came from.
• I've corrected this error but I just wanted to underscore the importance of double-checking how we cite people's views, especially from another language.

I removed the table in #Parliamentary parties. Although it's a great table, it's about the 2021 election and overall clutters this article.

I moved the section ##Election financing to #Electoral system, as it's about the government's running of the election, not the campaigns.

Overall, I think the article does a good job of giving the reader the necessary background on this topic, balancing past context, recent news, and yet-unknown information.

References

Wracking ^💬 04:50, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

• @Wracking: Thanks for the comments and thanks for the copy edit! PizzaKing13 ^¡Hablame! 02:06, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Cambio Democrático

Cambio Democrático released a statement on 2 June 2023 that their primary elections will include voting for presidential and vice-presidential pre-candidates, but the statement was released on Facebook. They're scheduled for 5 July. I haven't been able to find any sources outside of FB to confirm this though. I'll leave a link to the post. Their Twitter is inactive. SalvadoranSoldier (talk) 14:39, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Joel Sánchez page

Will add Draft:Joel Sánchez (politician) page once review is complete. Draft is done.

Results Parliament

Are they out yet?It‘s been days! 2003:E7:F10:2441:4CE1:1653:9D47:3B7D (talk) 18:43, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Local

Shouldn't there the local election be its own page since it's a different election, and was held on a different day? Aréat (talk) 04:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I tried to split them but the background is very entangled with the legislative election (the reductions) so doing so would be difficult. And if it is split, then the PARLACEN election would be either awkwardly left on its own here or made its own article which I don't think it would even be able to stand on its own since there would be very little information on it since basically no one cares about PARLACEN in El Salvador. If necessary, a second presidential round would have also occurred on 3 March, so it is still the same election regardless. PizzaKing13 ^¡Hablame! 06:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Copy Edit

I want to point out a few things (although on the whole this is a very nice article):

• There are a few false cognates from Spanish that appeared throughout the article. I'm not sure if you or someone else translated it but one I really want to point out is that "diputado" is not a "deputy," it's more like representative or member of parliament/congress. I also saw there was a reference to an "affiliation secretary," which I think would more accurately be the "membership secretary."
• I removed some of the original Spanish quotations, especially for very straightforward translations, I don't think it's necessary to keep them in there, since people can check the source or the Spanish version if they want to know what someone said.
• I didn't check this extensively, but you may want to double check that all the references are cited in the right places. There were a few times when I wanted to double check the original Spanish source but the reference didn't seem to lead to what the sentence or paragraph was about.

@SilkPyjamas: 'Deputy' can be and is used in English to refer to members of parliament. See e.g. Deputy (France). Number 57 19:59, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Number 57, I understand it can be used that way, but I don't think it's the clearest or best translation. The English "deputy," generally does not suggest the same meaning as the Spanish "dipuado." Saying that they're a member of congress or similar is less confusing for the average reader. SilkPyjamas (talk) 21:41, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2024 Salvadoran presidential election/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: PizzaKing13 (talk · contribs) 20:33, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: AirshipJungleman29 (talk · contribs) 12:15, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

I'll take this review. Comments to follow in the next few days.

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

4. Is it neutral?

   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

5. Is it stable?

   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

6. Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Images

All images seem correctly tagged; thanks for thinking about the FPS' flag. However, I don't see how an image of the "election website banner" is helpful, and the image of the 2019 inauguration could use a word saying it was the first. Otherwise, all good there. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:18, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Clarified about the first inauguration and removed the website banner PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 13:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

General comments

• First thing to note is that the article is very lengthy at almost 13,000 words (c.f. MOS:LEADLENGTH). This is a very good sign that WP:SS has not been adequately adhered to (WP:GACR criterion 3b). A look at the article shows some areas that are indeed too detailed:
  • the lead section is 576 words when most FAs have leads no longer than 400 (MOS:LEADLENGTH)
  • the "political background" section is over 3,000 words, much of which is about indirectly-related details explained at far too great a length.
  • most egregiously, the "Electoral campaign" section is over 5,300 (!) words, much of it dedicated to the internal machinations of comparatively irrelevant parties. Do we really need six lengthy paragraphs on the election process of a party which received 5.5% of the popular vote? Or 550 words on the Salvadoran Independent Party which did not register a single candidate?
• There is a really significant amount of detail which should either be spun off to child articles or just removed altogether. Before we get started with sourcing, I'd like to see a good start made on that front. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:30, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

• I'll work on cutting the article down over the next few days. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 01:04, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29: I've split the article into 2024 Salvadoran presidential election and 2024 Salvadoran legislative election. The article for the nomination is 2024 Salvadoran presidential election. Maybe I'll nominate the other some other day. The article is now 184,219 bytes (down from 426,781 bytes) and is 4,676 words (down from 13,000+ words). The article right now might read a little weird but please bear with me and point out if anything needs fixing. I'll be copyediting it over the next few days too. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 14:57, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
  • Good solution! Let me know when the copyediting is complete and I'll resume the review. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:16, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29: My ce should be done. I left some notes here before you review for context/clarification in case it comes up in the review: PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 11:50, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

• In the "Presidency of Nayib Bukele" section, the section starts by saying Bukele ran in 2019 as a member of GANA but later says that Nuevas Ideas was the party he founded. NI was founded in 2017 but he was not allowed to run with it due the TSE not registering it, so Bukele ran with GANA instead. Bukele was legally a member of GANA until he registered as NI's presidential candidate in 2023.
• When talking about the gang crackdown, I used the arrest stat for January 2024 and the death stat for May 2023 as they were the most up-to-date at the time of the election.
• I left a note in the "Presidential re-election controversy" section about what a presidential designate is.
• I also used the word "abide" for that last paragraph but it could arguably be changed to "circumvent".
• I cut the entire section talking about the Legislative Assembly passing a law allowing expatriates to vote. I relegated it to a note in the "Election procedure" section, but let me know if you think it needs to be in the prose, although it is overall more important to the legislative election IMO as it was more impactful there.
• The Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity has a flag but its not PD or CC as far as I can tell as it has a complex design that doesn't fall under PD-shape on Commons.
• Nuevas Ideas' section might appear very short considering that Bukele was the incumbent and won in a landslide. Well, he barely campaigned so there wasn't anything for the news to cover other than his presidency that I wouldn't consider part of his campaign. As a result, there was actually more news coverage of the other candidates' campaigns than Bukele's.
• All the quotes in Spanish are per MOS:FOREIGNQUOTE. The quotes without Spanish after them have been translated by the indicated source.
• The reductions of municipalities and seats on the Legislative Assembly isn't relevant to the presidential election so that section got removed. It only comes up once as part of ARENA's campaign but its not really crucial so just mentioned it in a note.
• All the polls used for the graph in the opinion polling section are at Opinion polling for the 2024 Salvadoran general election

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• "Bukele's election is considered one of the most impactful events in Salvadoran political history with many politicians and journalists described it as breaking the country's two-party system." not supported by the source, tone down the hyperbole.

• Reworded

• "Despite controversies and negative press coverage" is unneeded and should be cut; "despite" is always a possibly objectionable word per MOS:EDITORIAL

• Removed

• "Additionally, article 156 of the constitution prohibits anyone holding the presidency in the six months prior to the next presidential term from holding the office in the next term. The court interpreted it as permitting the president from seeking re-election if they resigned or obtained a leave of office before those six months." the grammar needs work—tense in the first sentence and "to seek" in the second.

• Fixed

• "who argued his re-election would be unconstitutional and violate at least four articles of El Salvador's constitution" bit of a tautology here

• All the news reporting I saw at the time stressed about how many articles it violated. They seemed to think it was important to note. 🤷‍♂️

• "In October and November 2023, ten requests were submitted to the TSE calling for the body to not register Bukele's presidential candidacy or void his candidacy after he initiated the registration process. Nuestro Tiempo, ARENA, and various NGOs filed these requests." better to combine these sentences into the active voice

• Reworded

• "She assumed office the following day and her appointment was criticized as unconstitutional by analysts and lawyers" would sound better the other way around, but also I think we have already said that people criticised the process as unconstitutional? this seems like saying the same thing again.

• Removed the second half

• Tenses are off in the first paragraph of "Election procedure". "was scheduled to be held" ... "were elected" ... "the election would be" ... "the election was held" ... standardisation needed

• Fixed?

• "and have been Salvadoran citizens by birth" grammar incorrect

• Fixed

• You should put the voting procedure in chronological order — i.e. start with overseas voting.

• Rearranged

• I would put the "Electoral campaign" and "Opinion polls" sections before "Electoral system".

• I put it where it is since it is partially background information that I broke into its own section. It also gives context for what political parties exist before going into all of their campaigns in the electoral campaign section.

More to follow. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

• Will work on this in the coming days. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 02:50, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. More comments:

• "They ran unopposed and won 44,398 votes" clarity needed as to what they ran in.

• Specified that it was in the party's primary

• "although opposition politicians have denied such claims" well obviously.

• Should their denial not be mentioned?

• "In a message posted on social media, Bukele claimed that people who continue to believe in and vote for the opposition "does not see, because they do not want to see; they will not change" ("no ve, porque no quiere ver; no cambiará")." Bukele stated that he was willing to work with the international community as long as they respected El Salvador as a partner rather than as subservient, adding that El Salvador could "change" ("cambiar"). All well and good, but nothing about specific election pledges?

• Nope. None at all. He did basically 0 campaigning other than like 4 ads on Twitter about how El Salvador will turn into a gang shithole if the opposition won. (The ads themselves didn't receive any news coverage as far as I can tell/remember.) Outside of that, nothing. Also fixed a grammar error I saw there.

• • ""change" ("cambiar")" is the quote and translation really necessary for such a WP:LIMITED phrase? Same with ""threats" ("amenazas")", ""better ally" ("mejor aliado")", etc.

• Removed

• "When Sánchez's candidacy was initially proposed, Miguel Fortín Magaña, the leader of Citizen Resistance, hoped that a political party would accept the movement's proposal and allow Sánchez to run under another party's banner." unclear what this means.

• Reworded

• "Julia Evelyn Martínez, a former professor at the Central American University" is s/he an expert in Salvadoran politics?

• She's an economist and former professor and feminist that goes on political talkshows and talks about [current thing]. Basically no one except people who are very into politics know of her.

• "He also stated that all criminals "will continue to stay in prison and we will pursue all criminals" ("van a seguir en la cárcel y vamos a perseguir a todos los criminales"), countering claims that the party defended criminals. Regarding corruption, Flores stated that "corruption is not combated, corruption is avoided ... in my government, I will not select corrupt individuals to form part of the cabinet" ("la corrupción no se combate, la corrupción se evita ... en mi gobierno no voy a presentar corruptos que formen parte del gabinete")." all of this would be better paraphrased than quoted and translated.

• Paraphrased

• Would be useful for the prose of the "Results" section to explicitly say which candidate belonged to which party.

• Added

Rest of the article is good. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:55, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29: Thanks for the comments. Should be addressed. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 20:59, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Source spotcheck

A dozen citations checked with the help of online translate tools; all passed verification, even for WP:TRANSVIO. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:57, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:31, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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Nayib Bukele

• ... that Nayib Bukele (pictured) won the 2024 Salvadoran presidential election with almost 85% of the vote?

• Source: "En Vivo: Cierre de Escrutinio Final de la Elección de Presidente y Vicepresidente 2024" [Live: The Final Scrutiny of the 2024 Election for President and Vice President Closes]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

• • ALT1: ... that in the 2024 Salvadoran presidential election, there was a 78 percentage point difference between first and second place? Source: "En Vivo: Cierre de Escrutinio Final de la Elección de Presidente y Vicepresidente 2024" [Live: The Final Scrutiny of the 2024 Election for President and Vice President Closes]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Simón Radowitzky

Improved to Good Article status by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 18:54, 29 July 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article promoted to GA on the same day as DYK nomination. All direct quotes and facts are sourced. Passes Earwig's. The hook is interesting and sourced (I understand enough Spanish to verify the hook is supported by the source). The picture is CC-BY-SA-4.0 and is clear. QPQ done. Nice work. Riley1012 (talk) 23:13, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Note that the image should not be used per WP:DYKIMG. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:58, 27 August 2025 (UTC)