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Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Nuevas Ideas (English: New Ideas; abbreviated N or NI) 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.
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]
El Salvador elects its head of state, the President of El Salvador, directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority. If an absolute majority is not achieved by any candidate in the first round of a presidential election, then a run-off pool election is conducted 30 days later between the two ...
1833-1834: A short lived Department of Tejutla was established from the districts of Metapan and Tejutla in San Salvador. [2] January 22, 1835: The Federal District of San Salvador is separated both from San Salvador department and from the State of Salvador. The remainder of San Salvador department is renamed to Cuscatlan, and Metapan district ...
This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador. Cities. City population figures below are from the World Population Review from 2024. [1]
The municipalities of El Salvador, called municipios are composed by 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons; these are conformed of caseríos. In June 2023, President Nayib Bukele proposed the reduction of municipal councils to 44, with former municipalities becoming districts.
Most of El Salvador's COVID-19 vaccines were donated by the United States and China. [165] [166] 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. [167] El Salvador had received 1.9 million doses at the time, and Honduras had only received 59,000. [168]