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Guillermo Gallegos. Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete (born 24 June 1970) is a Salvadoran lawyer and former politician of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2000 to 2024 and as the president of the Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2018.
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Largest: San Salvador (1,740,847) Smallest: Cabañas (164,945) Areas. Largest: Usulután (2,130.4 km 2) Smallest: Cuscatlán (756.2 km 2) Subdivisions. Municipality. El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: departamentos) for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities ( municipios) and 262 districts. The country is a ...
Geographically, the departments of the Central region, especially the capital and the coastal regions, known as departamentos rojos, or red departments, are relatively Leftist. [citation needed] The departamentos azules, or blue departments in the east, western and highland regions are relatively conservative. [citation needed]
Politics of El Salvador takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of an executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Legislative Assembly.
General elections were held in El Salvador on 4 February 2024 to elect the president, vice president and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly.This was followed by a second set of elections on 3 March 2024 in which voters elected all 44 mayors and municipal councils [b] of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).
The municipalities of El Salvador, called municipios are composed by 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons; these are conformed of caseríos. In June 2023, President Nayib Bukele proposed the reduction of municipal councils to 44, with former municipalities becoming districts.
v. t. e. The 2021 Salvadoran political crisis occurred on 1 May 2021 when the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador voted to remove several judges from the Supreme Court and remove the Attorney General of El Salvador, both of which had been vocal opponents to the presidency of Nayib Bukele. The event has been referred to as a self-coup by the ...