Bukele Gains More Power With El Salvador Congress Landslide Bloomberg 3/1/2021 Michael McDonald (Bloomberg) -- Allies of President Nayib Bukele won a landslide in El Salvador congressional elections on Sunday, concentrating power in the 39-year-old leader and paving the way for a possible deal with the International Monetary Fund. Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party and its allies appeared to have secured about two thirds of votes cast, according to a chart published with 80% of ballot sheets tallied. The graphic omitted the percentages obtained by each party. Bukele said in a tweet that his party and the allied GANA party would get 60 seats, more than the 56 needed for a qualified majority. A majority in congress would remove the main check on the popular president’s influence, and would make it easier for him to advance his agenda, issue debt and seek an IMF deal.