El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has never labeled himself with a political ideology. And while he seems to have affinities with right-wing leaders, his biographer has explained what he considers to be his way of doing politics.
When he started in politics, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele belonged to the left party Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). It was in 2012 when he ran for mayor of a small district in his country called Nuevo Cuscatlán.
By leaps and bounds, in just three years he became mayor of the capital, San Salvador, but before running for president he was expelled from the FMLN. At that time, Bukele announced that he would found his own party, Nuevas Ideas, but as the deadline for registering it had passed, came to the polls in alliance with the right-wing party Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA).
Already in power, The president championed Nuevas Ideas, which quickly became one of the most popular parties in the country.
However, Neither he nor his party wanted to be pigeonholed into a single category. ideology .

What is the ideology of Nayib Bukele and his Nuevas Ideas party?
According to the writer and biographer of Nayib Bukele, Geovani Galeas , “President Bukele has never defined himself as a man of the left or the right.”
In conversation with the Colombian media Week the author stated that The Salvadoran president “is a pragmatic politician. He defends national interests and of course he will associate or form strategic alliances with those who defend the same thing as him. It’s natural.”

As Gáleas explains, Bukele’s “personal contribution” to modern politics was “having refused to enter into this game of mirage, this game of illusions which is a false confrontation between the left and the right” where only the leaders win and the people always lose.
To better understand what pragmatic politics refers to, the writer assured that “A visit to China does not define him as a man of the left at all. President Bukele has very deliberately and explicitly refused to extend this historical pole of opposition (left and right), which has done us a lot of harm in El Salvador.

Asked about an apparent affinity between Bukele and right-wing leaders, such as Javier Milei, president of Argentina, and Donald Trump, former president of the United States, Gáleas defended the Salvadoran’s position and said that “They belong to the same bloc, defined by strategic, national and geopolitical interests, but not defined by ideological affinities.”
“It’s like the difference between a front and a party. “A front is not united by ideological affinity, but by a common enemy.”
Source: Latercera

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