Ernesto Muyshondt Net Worth 2021

Ernesto Muyshondt net worth

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Introduction

Ernesto Muyshondt is a Salvadoran businessman, farmer, politician  and member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party. He is the Mayor of San Salvador, also the president of ISDEM and Coordinator of COAMSSS.

Early Life

Ernesto Luis Muyshondt García–Prieto was born on August 30, 1975(age  46 years ) in San Salvador. Muyshondt is a graduate of  José Matías Delgado University. He has served as the Mayor of San Salvador, the capital and largest city in El Salvador, since May 1, 2018.

He was previously a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2015 until 2018.In 2017, incumbent San Salvador Mayor Nayib Bukele was expelled from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party. In response, Bukele announced that he would seek a new political party and run for president in the 2019 Salvadoran presidential election in which he won the elections.

The political upheaval came less than six months before the 2018 Salvadoran municipal elections, when voters would chose a new San Salvador mayor. Ernesto Muyshondt

is also known for being exposed on video offering bribes to gang leaders ahead of the 2014 presidential elections alongside the ARENA mayor of the working-class San Salvador suburb of Ilopango.

WeThe right-leaning Nationalist Republican Allianca (ARENA) selected Muyshondt, a deputy in the Legislative Assembly, as its candidate. The ruling FMLN, which had held the mayor’s office until it expelled Nayib Bukele from the party, chose Jackeline Rivera, a National Assembly deputy from Cuscatlán Department and former child soldier during the Salvadoran Civil War, as its candidate for mayor.

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Observers believed that Muyshondt had the edge in the race. Muyshondt easily defeated Rivera in the mayoral election on March 4, 2018. Muyshondt received 88,194 votes, or 61.2%, while Rivera placed a distant second with 39,736 votes, or 27.61%. Muyshondt was inaugurated Mayor of San Salvador on May 1, 2018.

In the legislative elections, held in february 2021, Muyshondt lost re-election for the Mayor of San Salavador against the candidate of Nuevas Ideas, Mario Durán.

Personal Life

Ernesto Muyshondt net worth
Ernesto Muyshondt and wife

Ernesto Muyshondt is married to Karlato Belismelis de Muyshondt. They have two children, a boy and a girl namely Addy and Ollie.

Ernesto Muyshondt Net worth

Ernesto Muyshondt net worth is estimated to be around $10 million. He is one the richest and influential public figures in El Salvador. His major income is generated from his private held investment businesses.