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| | '''Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez''' (born 24 July 1981, San Salvador, El Salvador) is the 43rd president of [[El Salvador]], serving since 1 June 2019. | | '''Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez''' (born 24 July 1981, San Salvador, El Salvador) is the 43rd president of [[El Salvador]], serving since 1 June 2019. |
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| | [[File:Nayib Bukele at Western Wall .jpg|thumb|Then-mayor of San Salvador Nayib Bukele at the Western Wall, February 2018.<ref name=toi>Raphael Ahren, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/his-dad-was-an-imam-his-wife-has-jewish-roots-meet-el-salvadors-new-leader/ His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador’s new leader], ''TOI'', 7 February 2019.<blockquote><small> | | [[File:Nayib Bukele at Western Wall .jpg|thumb|Then-mayor of San Salvador Nayib Bukele at the Western Wall, February 2018.<ref name=toi>Raphael Ahren, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/his-dad-was-an-imam-his-wife-has-jewish-roots-meet-el-salvadors-new-leader/ His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador’s new leader], ''TOI'', 7 February 2019.<blockquote><small> |
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| | His father Armando Bukele Kattán was a son of [[Arab]] [[Palestinian]] migrants, born a Christian who later on converted to Islam. However, he forged good relations with Jews in that country. His maternal side were Catholic. His wife has Jewish roots.<ref name=toi/> | | His father Armando Bukele Kattán was a son of [[Arab]] [[Palestinian]] migrants, born a Christian who later on converted to Islam. However, he forged good relations with Jews in that country. His maternal side were Catholic. His wife has Jewish roots.<ref name=toi/> |
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| | Nayib Bukele served as mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán for three years from 2012 to 2015, and then served three years as mayor of [[San Salvador]], the nation's capital, from 2015 to 2018. After winning both mayoral elections as a member of the FMLN, in 2017 Bukele was expelled from the party. In 2018 he established his own political party: Nuevas Ideas (NI). He sought to run for president in the 2019 election with the center-left Democratic Change (CD); however, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) dissolved the CD, forcing Bukele to instead run with the center-right Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He won the election with 53 percent of the vote. | | Nayib Bukele served as mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán for three years from 2012 to 2015, and then served three years as mayor of [[San Salvador]], the nation's capital, from 2015 to 2018. After winning both mayoral elections as a member of the FMLN, in 2017 Bukele was expelled from the party. In 2018 he established his own political party: Nuevas Ideas (NI). He sought to run for president in the 2019 election with the center-left Democratic Change (CD); however, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) dissolved the CD, forcing Bukele to instead run with the center-right Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He won the election with 53 percent of the vote. |