This article lists political parties in El Salvador.
Political culture 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. ARENA candidates won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009.
Geographically, the departments of the Central region, especially the capital and the coastal regions, known as departamentos rojos, or red departments, are relatively Leftist. The departamentos azules, or blue departments in the east, western and highland regions are relatively conservative.
In February 2021, El Salvador's legislative election was an important breakthrough. The new party, founded by President Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas, won around two-thirds of votes with its allies (GANA-New Ideas). His party won supermajority 56 seats in the 84-seat parliament. Bukele became the country’s most powerful leader in three decades.
Political parties
Registered parties
Flag Name Leader Ideology LegislativeAssembly Mayors PARLACEN Politicalposition Christian Democratic Party PDC Reinaldo Carballo Christian democracy Center toCenter-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front FMLN Manuel Flores Left-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity GANA Nelson Guardado Center-right Let's Go V Cesia Rivas Christian democracyLiberalism Center Nationalist Republican Alliance ARENA Carlos García Saade Center-rightto right-wing New Ideas NI Xavier Zablah Bukele Big tent National Coalition Party PCN Manuel Rodríguez Nationalism Center-right Salvadoran Democracy DS Ezequiel Mendoza Fermán Progressivism Center-left Salvadoran Independent Party PAIS Roy García Reformism Center Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity FPS Óscar Morales Lemus Anti-communism Right-wing Solidary Force FS Rigoberto Soto Conservatism Right-wing
Unregistered parties
Flag Name Leader Ideology Politicalposition Democratic Change CD Javier Milián Social democracy Center-left Our Time NT Andy Failer Progressivism Center to Center-left Total Change TC Ronal Umaña Reformism Center-left
Defunct
Authentic Constitutional Party (, PCA) Authentic Democratic Christian Movement (, MCDA) Christian Force (, FC) Communist Party of El Salvador (, PCES) Constitutional Party (, PC) Democratic Action (, AD) Democratic Convergence (, CD) Democratic Republican League (, LRD) Democratic Union Party (, PUD) Movement of National Solidarity (, MSN) Movement of Unity (, MU) National Action Party (, PAN) National Democratic Party (, PDN) National Development Party, (, PDN) National Liberal Party (, PNL) National Opposition Union (, UNO) National Pro Patria Party (, PNPP) National Republican Party (, PRN) Party of the United People and the New Deal (, PPUNA) Patriotic Action Party (, PAP) Popular Action (, AP) Popular Orientation Party (, POP) Progressive Fraternal Party (, PFP) Renewal Movement (, MR) Renovating Action Party (, PAR) Republican Party for National Unity (, PRUN) Republican People's Party (, PPR) Republican Social Front (, FSR) Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification (, PRUD) Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party (, PIAS) Salvadoran Laborist Party (, PLS) Salvadoran People's Party (, PPS) Salvadoran Progressive Party (, PPS) Social Christian Union (, UCS) Social Democratic Party (, PSD) Social Democratic Unification Party (, PUDS) Stable Republican Centrist Movement (, MCRE) United Democratic Centre (, CDU) United Independent Democratic Front (, FDIR) Unity Movement (, UNIDAD)
See also Elections in El Salvador Politics of El Salvador
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