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- Country of residence: El Salvador
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Nayib Bukele (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman. He was elected President of El Salvador on February 3, 2019. He is the first independent Salvadoran president outside the two nationalist parties (which have ruled El Salvador since 1988) representing the center-right party.
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Najeeb Baqila was born on July 24, 1981. His mother is Olga Ortiz Baqila and his father is Armando Baqila Qattan, a prominent businessman of Palestinian origin, who converted to Islam and became an imam in El Salvador's mosques. According to The Times of Israel, Najib Baqila's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem and Bethlehem, while his maternal grandmother was Catholic and his maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Christian. He is married to Gabriela Rodriguez, a psychiatrist and educator of Sephardic Jewish roots.
The signs of brilliance appeared to Najeeb since he was young, and he established his first company at the age of eighteen. According to El Faro newspaper, he owns Yamaha El Salvador (which is the exclusive agent for Yamaha products in El Salvador). He is also the President and CEO of Obermet Corporation.
He was elected mayor of Nuevo Costalán in 2012 with 49.7% of the vote. In 2015, he was elected mayor of San Salvador, with 50.3% of the vote.
He is considered a famous young politician despite being criticized for not having a clear political vision to support his likable personality. Also, the duality of his religion, as he is from a Muslim father and a Christian mother, questions the truth of his affiliation, which made him receive criticism for performing prayers in the Muslim mosque during the 2019 elections; While he publicly declared that he considers himself a follower of the Christian religion on the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. He defended himself, saying that he considered himself a believer in God first and not affiliated with any religion. In a 2015 interview he said, "I am not a person who believes very much in religious rituals. However, I do believe in God, and in Jesus Christ. I believe in His word and I believe in His word in the Bible. I know that God does not reject anyone because of their origins."
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