| Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Asamblea legislativa / Legislative Assembly |
| Structure of parliament |
Unicameral |
| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
14 December 1992
Last amendment: 22.11.1996 |
| Mode of designation |
directly elected 84 |
| Constituencies |
- 14 multi-member constituencies (3 to 16 seats) corresponding to the country's departments
- 1 national multi-member (20 seats) constituency |
| Voting system |
Proportional:
Closed party-list voting according to a system of proportional representation (simple quotient and the greatest remainder).
The 14 departments of the country constitute as many constituencies returning 64 members, each according to its population. The other 20 Assembly members are elected at the level of the national constituency.
Vacancies arising between general elections are filled by substitutes elected at the same time as titular Deputies.
Voting is compulsory (no sanctions). |
| Voter requirements |
- age: 18 years
- Salvadoran citizenship
- possession of civil and political rights |
| CANDIDATES |
| Eligibility |
- qualified electors
- age: 25 years
- Salvadoran citizenship by birth
- well-known integrity and education
- ineligibilities: loss of rights of citizenship during the five years preceding the elections, handling or administration of public funds (until their accounts have been audited), government contractors, certain relatives of the President of the Republic, delinquent debtors to the public or municipal treasuries, members of the armed forces and the clergy |
| Incompatibilities |
- President of the Republic
- minister of Government
- under-Secretary of State
- magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice
- official of an electoral agency |
| Candidacy requirements |
- submission by political parties
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