Ernesto Muyshondt

Ernesto Luis Muyshondt García Prieto (born 30 August 1975) is a Salvadoran businessman, politician and member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party.

In 2017, incumbent San Salvador Mayor Nayib Bukele was expelled from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party.

[4] In the legislative elections, held in February 2021, Muyshondt lost re-election for the Mayor of San Salvador against the candidate of Nuevas Ideas, Mario Durán.

[6] On 6 June 2022, during a hearing against him, Muyshondt stated on the record that he had been so severely beaten in Moiriana prison on three occasions that he had to be taken to hospital due to acute danger to his life.

[8] On 9 August, Muyshondt was acquitted by the Public Prosecution Service of the charge of embezzling taxpayers' money from sanitation workers, but the Attorney General's Office appealed against this verdict.