SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans will choose Sunday from among a handful of presidential candidates all promising to end corruption, stamp out gang violence and create more jobs with the front-runner hoping to end three decades of two-party rule in the country.
The Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies found great similarities in the four candidates' proposals. Top of the agenda is public safety: roughly 67,000 Salvadorans belong to gangs that terrorize communities. The candidates have also touched on ways to generate economic opportunities.
Leading in the polls is Nayib Bukele, the ex-mayor of the capital. Bukele has promised to create a commission to tackle impunity. He also proposes taxing property and idle agricultural land, levying higher taxes on luxury goods and combating tax evasion. His election would end decades of two-party rule.
