Overview
- Final CIEP-UCR polling places Laura Fernández around 43.8% support, above the 40% threshold to avoid a runoff, with Álvaro Ramos near 9.2% and Claudia Dobles about 8.6%.
- Analysts and opposition figures warn that an officialist sweep in the 57-seat Assembly could enable constitutional and judicial changes as Fernández campaigns on Bukele-inspired security measures, including a maximum-security prison and exceptional controls.
- Polling stations will operate from 6:00 to 18:00 local time, and only the physical national ID card is valid to vote, including those expired by up to one year, with an online portal available to confirm polling places.
- Overseas voters may cast ballots only for President and Vice Presidents at consulates from 9:00 to 19:00 local time, with more than 67,000 citizens registered abroad.
- The TSE pledged to safeguard the process and to release preliminary results from 20:45 local time, and it reiterated rules and sanctions such as employer obligations, penalties for electoral crimes, a ban on photographing ballots, and a two-minute limit in the booth.