The Legislative Assembly is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador.
The Grand Alliance for National Unity is a political party in El Salvador. The party established itself on 16 January 2010 and was recognized by the Supreme Electoral Court of El Salvador on 19 May of the same year.
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has been the 81st president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019. As a member of the Nuevas Ideas political party,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 previously been a member.
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.
Nuevas Ideas is the ruling political party of El Salvador. 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.
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.
RenéFrancis Merino Monroy is a Salvadoran military officer who currently serves as the Minister of National Defense. He was appointed to the position by President Nayib Bukele in June 2019,becoming the first officer from the Salvadoran Navy to serve as minister of defense.
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.
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 in February and March 2024. In the first round on 4 February,voters elected the president,vice president,and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. In the second round on 3 March,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).
Claudia Mercedes Ortiz Menjívar is a Salvadoran politician who currently serves as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly. She is the only member of the political party Vamos in the legislature,and was elected in the 2021 legislative election from the department of San Salvador. Ortiz is considered a leading opposition figure during the presidency in Nayib Bukele.
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.
Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete 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.
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.
Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara is a Salvadoran accountant who is a former presidential designate and 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 on his 2024 re-election campaign,which some constitutional lawyers have argued violates the country's constitution.
Saúl Enrique Mancía is a Salvadoran politician and communications specialist who has served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the department of Chalatenango since 2021. He serves as a member of the agriculture commission and the public works,transportation,and housing commission. Mancía is a member of Nuevas Ideas.
Numan Pompilio Salgado García is a Salvadoran politician,lawyer,and businessman who served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2024. He also served as the first secretary of the Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2021 and the second secretary from 2021 to 2024.
Reinaldo Alcides Carballo Carballo is a Salvadoran politician,businessman,and electrical engineer. He has served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly since 2018. As a deputy of the Legislative Assembly,he is serving as the legislature's third secretary;from 2021 to 2024,he served as its fourth secretary. Before becoming a politician,Carballo established several companies and education institutes.
