El Salvador confirms ruling party supermajority in congress

Images of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who is running for reelection, are projected on buildings during the presidential and parliamentary elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, February 4, 2024. REUTERS/Jessica Orellana/Files

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - El Salvador's electoral authority on Monday confirmed that President Nayib Bukele's New Ideas party won 54 of 60 seats in Congress in elections earlier this month, after reported irregularities prompted a hand count of the vote.

The result gives Bukele's ruling party a supermajority in the country's single-chamber legislature.

(Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Writing by Brendan O'Boyle; Editing by Sarah Morland)