El Salvador’s rising political star
The real winner in legislative and local elections was not on the ballot
SOME voters sketched, scratched and scribbled on their ballots. The cleverest crossed out letters from the voting instructions to form dirty words. Photos of their handiwork appeared on Twitter on March 4th as Salvadoreans voted in municipal and legislative elections. One in ten voters defaced their ballots or left them blank. In a country where voting is obligatory, a record 58% stayed at home.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Nayib in ’19”
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