About 5.6 million Salvadorans have the right to vote in the 2024 elections, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (SET) confirmed today.
Residents in the country up to 4.8 million have updated their identity documents and up to July 21, the SET reported that there were 6.1 million people in the electoral registry, of them, 674,348 residents abroad, a figure that at some point the president of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, said could reach one million.
Yesterday, the president of the National Registry of Natural Persons, Fernando Velasco, assured that a total of 5.69 million of his compatriots registered with Unique Identity Documents (DUIS were ready to vote, both nationally and abroad.
There is a total of 4,840,000 in force at national level and 850,000 DUIS in force and expired abroad according to the figures provided by Velasco, figures which sometimes do not coincide with those of the SET.
The Special Law for the Exercise of Suffrage Abroad will allow Salvadorans living abroad to vote with expired dui or passport, but the Electoral Code only allows Salvadorans living within the national territory to vote with a valid DUI.
The national electoral roll closes on August 7 and the national electoral roll abroad closes on November 6, according to what is established in the Special Law Abroad, which gave 90 days prior to the electoral date.
After that date, no Salvadoran can be integrated to the voter registry as eligible to vote.
The total registry of the TSE differs in 499,378 records from the population eligible to vote reported by the RNPN.(PL)
