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. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. El Salvador was ranked 5th least electoral democratic country in Latin America and the Caribbean according to V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023 with a score of 0.378 out of 1.
The Nationalist Republican Alliance is a conservative,center-right to right-wing political party of El Salvador. It was founded on 30 September 1981 by retired Salvadoran Army Major Roberto D'Aubuisson. It defines itself as a political institution constituted to defend the democratic,republican,and representative system of government,the social market economy system and nationalism.
The Christian Democratic Party is a Salvadoran political party. From 2011 to 2012,the party was renamed to Party of Hope before reverting to the Christian Democratic Party. The PDC has been led by Reinaldo Carballo since 2023.
The Embassy of El Salvador in Washington,D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of El Salvador to the United States. It is located at 1400 16th Street Northwest,Suite 100,Washington,D.C. in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has been 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 MartíNational Liberation Front (FMLN),of which Bukele had been a member. He is the first Salvadoran president to be re-elected since 1944.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Irma Michelle Martha Ninette Sol Schweikert de Castro,commonly known Michelle Sol,is a Salvadoran politician and businesswoman who currently serves as the minister of housing of El Salvador. She previously served as the mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán from 2015 to 2019,and was a candidate for mayor of La Libertad Este in 2024.
Mario Edgardo Durán Gavidia is a Salvadoran politician and businessman,has worked in the public administration since 2012,he was Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Nayib Bukele,and since 1 May 2021 he is mayor of San Salvador.
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.
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 opposition and by news media outlets due to the action itself but also because of the 2020 Salvadoran political crisis in the year prior,where Bukele ordered soldiers into the Legislative Assembly,which has also been characterized as a self-coup.
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).
The Airport of the Pacific,is a planned joint-use civilian international airport and military base that will be located in Conchagua,El Salvador,and will serve the city of La Unión and the planned Bitcoin City. 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.
Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo,nicknamed "El Chino",is a Salvadoran politician. As a member of the Farabundo MartíNational 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.
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.
Yusef AlíBukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman,politician,and economist. He is a younger brother of and advisor to Nayib Bukele,the current president of El Salvador. Bukele has served as one of Nayib's economic advisors and played a role in the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.
Ibrajim Antonio Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman. He is a younger brother of and advisor to Nayib Bukele,the incumbent president of El Salvador.
