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The Legislative Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Legislativa) is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador.
The Salvadoran legislature is a unicameral body. It is made up of 84 deputies, all of who are elected by direct popular vote according to closed-list proportional representation to serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate re-election. Of these, 64 are elected in 14 multi-seat constituencies, corresponding to the country's 14 departments, which return between 3 and 16 deputies each. The remaining 20 deputies are selected on the basis of a single national constituency.
To be eligible for election to the Assembly, candidates must be (Art. 126, Constitution):
There is a new "political group"( but not a political party) in the legislature made up of 10 deputies who left the ARENA party, their new Name is Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional, or GANA
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since 11 January 2009 [1]
| Party / Group | Deputies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) | 35 | ||
| Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) | 18 | ||
| Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) | 16 | ||
| National Conciliation Party (PCN) | 10 | ||
| Christian Democratic Party (PCD) | 2 | ||
| Democratic Change (CD) | 1 | ||
| Independent | 2 | ||
| Total | 84 | ||
| Fuente: asamblea.gob.sv | |||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) | 943,936 | 42.60% | 35 | +3 | ||
| Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) | 854,166 | 38.55% | 32 | –2 | ||
| National Conciliation Party (Partido de Conciliación Nacional) | 194,751 | 8.79% | 11 | +1 | ||
| Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano) | 146,904 | 6.63% | 5 | –1 | ||
| Democratic Change (Cambio Democrático) | 46,971 | 2.12% | 1 | –1 | ||
| Revolutionary Democratic Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionario) | 21,154 | 0.95% | 0 | — | ||
| PDC–FDR | 7,707 | 0.35% | 0 | — | ||
| Totals | 2,215,589 | 100.00% | 84 | — | ||
| Source: Tribunal Supremo Electoral, [2] | ||||||
El Salvador also returns 20 deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament, also elected according to closed-list proportional representation from a single national constituency.
Official Website of the Legislative Assembly (in Spanish)
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