The organization was founded in 1824 as the Central American Congress (Spanish:Congreso Federal Centroamericano).[1] The 1824 constitution first established a bicameral legislature[2] , including Senate. The 1880 constitution retained a bicameral legislature. The 1886 constitution introduced a unicameral legislature.[2]
Blue Room of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
The Salvadoran legislature is aunicameral body. Until 2024, it was made up of 84deputies, all of whom are elected by direct popular vote according to open-list proportional representation to serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate re-election. Of these, 64 were elected in 14 multi-seatconstituencies, corresponding to the country's 14departments, which return between 3 and 16 deputies each. The remaining 20 deputies were selected on the basis of a single nationalconstituency.
To be eligible for election to the assembly, candidates must be (Art. 126, Constitution):
over 25;
Salvadoran citizens by birth, born of at least one parent to be a Salvadoran citizen;
of recognised honesty and education, and
have not had the privilege of one's rights as a citizen cancelled in the previous five years.
On 1 June 2023, Salvadoran PresidentNayib Bukele issued a proposal to the Legislative Assembly to reduce the number of its seats from 84 to 60.[3] The proposal was passed by the Legislative Assembly on 7 June 2023 and went into effect on 1 May 2024.[4]
El Salvador also returns 20 deputies to the supranationalCentral American Parliament, also elected according toopen-list proportional representation from a single national constituency.
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