It's Tuesday, February 6, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

A presidential election in El Salvador is not always front-page news in the United States,

but the election that took place over the weekend should be, and in terms of worldview issues this is

absolutely massive we're talking about a very small central American country

and we're talking about an election in which it was pretty well known long before the first ballot was cast who was going to win.

It is the incumbent president who at least according to the historic constitution of El Salvador would not be qualified to run for a second term.

His name is Nayyebu Cayle, and he has been in office for a period of time.

It was enough that he gained political power, enough that he persuaded the nation nation Supreme Court to allow him to run

for re-election even in apparent violation of the Constitution and the people of

El Salvador in a true election went to the ballot place and elected him

overwhelmingly, massively.

We're talking about what is not only a landslide, but in effect, he was returned to office with what can only be

described as the overwhelming support of the people. Now you could look at that and

say that El Salvador is in danger becoming a one-party state that it wasn't particularly fair

that the El Salvadoran president had the unlimited platform he had other candidates

did not have but the bottom line is there is no doubt that

the people of El Salvador really wanted President Bukale to be re-elected and

that raises a couple of huge issues I guess the most practical question is why? Why

would the people of El Salvador want someone that many people in the West and

including many people in El Salvador see as a dictator about to happen. What they see is

increasing one-party rule. What they see is an eclipse of democracy. So why did

voters when they had the opportunity to exercise the Democratic

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