2024 in El Salvador

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Events in the year 2024 in El Salvador .

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">President of El Salvador</span> Head of state and government of El Salvador

The president of El Salvador, officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador, is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador. He is also, by constitutional law, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. The office was created in the Constitution of 1841. From 1821 until 1841, the head of state of El Salvador was styled simply as Head of State.

<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 has served as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019. Bukele is the first Salvadoran president since 1989 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. He is also the first Salvadoran president to be re-elected since 1944.

<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">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 2020 in El Salvador.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cabinet of Nayib Bukele</span> Current presidential cabinet of El Salvador

The cabinet of Nayib Bukele formed on 1 June 2019 to serve as President Nayib Bukele's cabinet from 1 June 2019 until 1 June 2029.

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).

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 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Karim Bukele</span> Salvadoran businessman and politician

Karim Alberto Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman and politician. He is a younger brother of and was a presidential advisor to Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador. Bukele has previously worked as Nayib's campaign manager during his 2015 and 2019 electoral campaigns as well as the campaign manager for the Nuevas Ideas political party in 2021. In late-2023, Bukele was considered a likely candidate to succeed Nayib as acting president in the event that he resigned ahead of the 2024 general election, however, Bukele denied that he would succeed Nayib.

<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.

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. Crespín, Verónica (29 February 2024). "TSE Entrega Credenciales a Bukele y Ulloa para Período Presidencial 2024-2029" [The TSE Gives Credentials to Bukele and Ulloa for the 2024–2029 Presidential Term]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. "El Salvador's former leftist strongholds contemplate party's demise". Associated Press . 6 March 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  5. "Bukele anuncia capturas y cerco militar por homicidios en Chalatenango". Diario El Mundo (in Spanish). 24 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  6. "El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele's inauguration". Associated Press. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  7. "El Salvador's 'all-powerful' gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term". France 24. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  8. "2 teens are killed when a bedroom wall collapses after heavy rains on an island in El Salvador". Associated Press. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  9. "7 people die in events related to heavy rains in El Salvador". Associated Press. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  10. "El Salvador death toll rises to 19 as heavy rains continue". AP News. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  11. "El Salvador Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  12. "National Holidays in El Salvador in 2024". Office Holidays. Retrieved 20 November 2023.