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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.
Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara (born 1980 or 1981) is a Salvadoran accountant who briefly served as presidential designate and the acting president of El Salvador from 1 December 2023 to 1 June 2024. She assumed presidential powers and duties after President Nayib Bukele was granted a leave of absence by the Legislative Assembly to focus ...
Grand Alliance for National Unity. The party's flag from 2018 to 2021. The Grand Alliance for National Unity ( GANA; Spanish: Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional) is a political party in El Salvador. The party established itself on 16 January 2010 [4] and was recognized by the Supreme Electoral Court of El Salvador on 19 May of the same year.
El Salvador has a multi-party system. Two political parties, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), had traditionally dominated politics. [1] ARENA candidates won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009. [2]
Nuevas Ideas (English: New Ideas; abbreviated N or NI) is a Salvadoran political party. The party was founded on 25 October 2017 by Nayib Bukele, the then- mayor of San Salvador, and was registered by the Supreme Electoral Court on 21 August 2018. The party's current president is Xavier Zablah Bukele, a cousin of Bukele who has served since ...
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).
Most of El Salvador's COVID-19 vaccines were donated by the United States and China. [162] [163] On 13 May 2021, Bukele donated 34,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to seven towns in Honduras after pleas from their mayors for vaccine doses. [164] El Salvador had received 1.9 million doses at the time, and Honduras had only received 59,000. [165]
Politics of El Salvador. 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 ...