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Events in the year 2024 in El Salvador .

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nayib Bukele</span> President of El Salvador since 2019

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who is the 43rd president of El Salvador, serving since 1 June 2019. He is the first Salvadoran president since 1984 who was not elected as a candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), of which Bukele was formerly a member.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Salvadoran presidential election</span>

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Félix Ulloa</span> Vice President of El Salvador (born 1951)

Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay is a Salvadoran politician and lawyer who became Vice President of El Salvador on 1 June 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2021 Salvadoran legislative election</span>

Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 February 2021. Salvadorans elected all 84 deputies of the Legislative Assembly, all 262 mayors of municipal councils of the country's municipalities, and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuevas Ideas</span> Political party in El Salvador

Nuevas Ideas 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 March 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele</span> First Lady of El Salvador

Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele is a Salvadoran educator, prenatal psychologist and the current First Lady of El Salvador, as the wife of the 43rd President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. She is also a professional ballet dancer and is part of the dance company Fundación Ballet de El Salvador.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2020 Salvadoran political crisis</span> Political crisis in El Salvador

The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to in El Salvador as the numeronym 9F or El Bukelazo, was an incident in El Salvador on 9 February 2020. During the political crisis, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sent 40 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army into the Legislative Assembly building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of 109 million dollars from the United States for Bukele's security plan for the country.

Events in the year 2021 in El Salvador.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernesto Castro</span> Salvadoran politician and president of the Legislative Assembly (2021–present)

Ernesto Alfredo Castro Aldana is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who currently serves as the president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. Castro previously served as a secretary and private advisor to Nayib Bukele from 2012 to 2020 when he was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from San Salvador in the 2021 legislative election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 Salvadoran general election</span>

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 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Salvadoran gang crackdown</span> Ongoing large-scale arrests of alleged gang members in El Salvador

The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción and the guerra contra las pandillas, began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador. The Salvadoran government blamed the spike in murders on criminal gangs in the country, resulting in the country's legislature approving a state of emergency that suspended the rights of association and legal counsel, and increased the time spent in detention without charge, among other measures that expanded the powers of law enforcement in the country.

The Airport of the Pacific is a planned joint-use civilian international airport and military base which will be located in Conchagua, El Salvador, and will serve the city of La Unión. The airport was proposed by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele during his 2019 presidential campaign as a part of his "Plan Cuscatlán" and construction was approved by the Legislative Assembly on 26 April 2022. Terraforming began in March 2023.

Opinion polling has been conducted in El Salvador since September 2019, three months after President Nayib Bukele took office on 1 June 2019, to gauge public opinion of Bukele and his government. Despite negative reception from outside of El Salvador, domestically, Bukele is considered to be one of the most popular presidents in Salvadoran history as his approval ratings generally hover around 90 percent.

Events in the year 2022 in El Salvador.

The following tables list the results of opinion polls for the presidential, legislative, and municipal elections conducted since October 2022 in reverse chronological order for the 2024 Salvadoran general election. The party with the highest percentage is listed in bold and displayed with its background shaded, and the party with the second highest percentage is listed in bold. The lead column shows the percentage between the parties with the first and second highest percentages. For legislative and municipal election polls, projected seat counts, if available, are listed below the percentage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manuel Flores (Salvadoran politician)</span> Salvadoran politician

Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo, nicknamed "El Chino", is a Salvadoran politician. As a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), Flores served as the mayor of Quezaltepeque from 2003 to 2012 and then later as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from La Libertad from 2012 to 2021. He was the presidential candidate for the FMLN in the 2024 general election with running mate was Werner Marroquín. He lost in a landslide to incumbent President Nayib Bukele, accumulating only 6.40 percent of the vote. Flores supports El Salvador further strengthening relations with the People's Republic of China.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guillermo Gallegos</span> Salvadoran politician

Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete is a Salvadoran lawyer and politician of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He currently serves as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 in Central America</span> Overview of Central America-related events during the year of 2024

The following lists events of 2024 in Central America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gustavo Villatoro</span> Salvadoran politician

Héctor Gustavo Villatoro Funes is a Salvadoran politician who currently serves as the Minister of Justice and Public Security. He was appointed by President Nayib Bukele in 2021. During Villatoro's term, he has overseen the Salvadoran gang crackdown which has since led to the arrests of over 74,000 alleged gang members as of 7 December 2023.

The blockade of southern Chalatenango began on 24 March 2024 when Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ordered 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to blockade and enter the four municipalities in southern Chalatenango. The blockade is the second to be implemented in the Chalatenango Department after the blockade of Nueva Concepción which began in May 2023. The blockade aims to dismantle the 18 Sureños clique of the 18th Street gang.

References

  1. ↑ Crespín, Verónica (6 January 2024). "Arranca voto electrónico para 741,094 salvadoreños con DUI en el exterior". Diario El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Los 622 Funcionarios Públicos que Elegirán los Salvadoreños en 2024" [The 622 Public Workers that Salvadorans Will Elect in 2024]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 3 July 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  3. ↑ DEM, Redacción (24 March 2024). "Bukele anuncia capturas y cerco militar por homicidios en Chalatenango". Diario El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  4. ↑ "2024 NACAC Championships calendar". NACAC. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "El Salvador Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "National Holidays in El Salvador in 2024". Office Holidays. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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