Talk:2024 Salvadoran general election

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Section sizes Section size for 2024 Salvadoran general election (54 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 14,001 14,001 Political background 27 116,378 Presidency of Nayib Bukele 23,283 23,283 Presidential re-election controversy 14,413 36,403 Criticism and opposition to re-election 21,990 21,990 Allegations of fraud 25,636 25,636 Reduction of municipalities and legislative seats 58 31,029 Initial proposals, support, and criticism 14,604 14,604 Legislative Assembly approval 16,367 16,367 Electoral system 23 36,571 Election procedure 13,097 13,097 Election financing 7,195 7,195 Political parties 11,897 11,897 Registered voters 4,359 4,359 Presidency 17 14,658 Registered candidates 10,032 10,032 Rejected candidates 1,656 1,656 Withdrawn candidates 1,386 1,386 Declined candidates 1,567 1,567 Parliament 8,293 16,973 Retiring deputies 8,680 8,680 Electoral campaign 11,759 135,369 Nuevas Ideas 21,452 21,452 Nationalist Republican Alliance 25,867 25,867 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 22,954 22,954 Nuestro Tiempo 11,593 11,593 Solidary Force 6,043 6,043 Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity 2,303 2,303 Salvadoran Independent Party 9,047 9,047 Grand Alliance for National Unity 7,469 7,469 National Coalition Party 5,748 5,748 Christian Democratic Party 3,180 3,180 Vamos 4,289 4,289 Democratic Change 1,467 1,467 Salvadoran Democracy 767 767 Independents 1,431 1,431 Opinion polls 5,502 5,502 Results 15 34,164 Presidential results 2,745 9,466 Results by department 6,721 6,721 Legislative Assembly results 5,440 16,415 Results by department 10,975 10,975 Municipal results 5,837 5,837 PARLACEN results 2,431 2,431 Aftermath 17 49,578 Domestic reactions 13,640 13,640 International reactions 10,632 10,632 Allegations of irregularities 17,595 17,595 Presidential and legislative transition 7,694 7,694 See also 186 186 Notes 24 24 References 28 28 Further reading 9,324 9,324 External links 1,157 1,157 Total 433,913 433,913

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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.^[1]
  • 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.^[2]
  • 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:^[3][4][5]
  • 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.^[6]
  • 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.

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

• 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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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.^[1]

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,^[2][3]including René Merino Monroy, the Minister of National Defense of El Salvador,^[4] and José Luis Escobar Alas, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador.^[5]

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".^[6]
• 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.

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

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

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)[reply]

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

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]