ABSTRACT
El Salvador’s journey from civil war to peace has been one of the most-studied cases of UN peacebuilding in the past thirty years. Despite the country’s transformation, El Salvador’s democracy has been undermined by violence, lack of economic growth, and corruption. This resulted in growing dissatisfaction with democracy and democratic institutions among Salvadoran voters. In 2019, this dissatisfaction resulted in the election of Nayib Bukele, which broke the party duopoly held by ARENA and the FMLN since the end of the war. Bukele’s authoritarian tendencies, however, were cause for concern.
