{"id":506884,"date":"2026-05-07T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-legislative-assembly-ratifies-constitutional-amendments-that-allow-the-representation-of-the-diaspora-in-el-salvador\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:07:41","slug":"the-legislative-assembly-ratifies-constitutional-amendments-that-allow-the-representation-of-the-diaspora-in-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-legislative-assembly-ratifies-constitutional-amendments-that-allow-the-representation-of-the-diaspora-in-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legislative Assembly ratifies constitutional amendments that allow the representation of the diaspora in El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador<\/strong> approved this Thursday the ratification of a constitutional reform that enables the creation of an exclusive electoral district for Salvadorans abroad<\/strong>, with which this sector of the population will be able to directly elect their representatives in the Legislative Body.\n\n\n

<\/a>The vote obtained a majority support and marks a change in the form of political representation for the diaspora, estimated at more than three million citizens.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the discussion of the parliamentarians, the reform modifies the first paragraph of article 79 of the Constitution, so that it is established that the electoral districts will be defined both in the national territory and abroad.\n\n\n

<\/a>Until now, the votes cast outside the country did not have their own constituency or deputies who exclusively represented Salvadorans residing outside national borders.<\/p>\n\n\nCristian Guevara<\/strong>, deputy of the Nuevas Ideas<\/strong> party, explained to the plenary that the reform implies that, in addition to the current fourteen constituencies, a fifteenth will be added, specifically for the diaspora.\n\nWe recommend reading:\n\n\n

<\/a>\u201cJust as there are currently fourteen constituencies and Salvadorans can choose from any of those constituencies, we are discussing the possibility of creating a new constituency, number fifteen, to represent Salvadorans living abroad.<\/strong>\u00a0This is the only discussion we are having today, that is, to give Salvadorans abroad the possibility of having their own candidates and for them to vote for them\u201d, he explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the data presented during the session, more than 950,000 Salvadorans<\/strong> have their registered address outside the country, which shows the magnitude of the community abroad.\n\nThe President of the Assembly, Ernesto Castro<\/strong>, highlighted the relevance of the change and requested the vote to ratify the constitutional reform agreement number seven, approved by the plenary.\n\nOfficial data indicates that there are more than 950 thousand Salvadorans abroad eligible to vote.\n\nDuring the discussion, congresswoman Alexia Rivas<\/strong>, also from Nuevas Ideas, read the favorable opinion and emphasized that the proposal responds to the need to guarantee effective representation and compliance with the principle of equality of the vote.\n\n\n

\u201cOf them, more than nine hundred and fifty thousand have a registered address outside the country. This data reflects the dimension of a community that already participates in the country’s political system and that today deserves structural recognition, with a specific representation for the first time in the Legislative Assembly, with deputies whom they can elect in free elections\u201d,<\/strong> he maintained.<\/p>\n\n\nIn the plenary session, it was mentioned that the representatives of the Vice Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/strong>, the National Registry of Natural Persons<\/strong>, and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal<\/strong> appeared before the Political Commission to provide technical inputs and highlight the importance of the reform. During those meetings, the authorities of the National Registry reported that, in the elections held in 2024, 331,756 Salvadorans residing abroad exercised their right to vote<\/strong>, a figure that contrasts with the 3,808 participants in previous processes.\n\nThe presiding magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Roxana Soriano<\/strong>, stated that the creation of an electoral district for the diaspora “will allow the diaspora to directly elect its representatives, as well as the new way of electing the magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.”\n\nDuring the parliamentary debate, Ra\u00fal Chamagua<\/strong>, a Nuevas Ideas deputy, stated that the measure represents a fundamental step forward for democratic strengthening.\n\n\u201cWith what we are going to approve, we are saying not only to our Salvadoran citizens, but to the whole world, that El Salvador is a State that continues to bet on the strengthening of democracy. Because our Constitution says that every Salvadoran citizen must have the right to vote and to be represented.\u201d\n\nThe Political Commission of the Legislative Assembly discussed the constitutional reform this week.\n\nThe reform establishes that “in the territory of the Republic and abroad, the electoral districts determined by law will be established. The basis of the electoral system in the territory of the Republic is the population and abroad, the electoral register.”\n\nFor her part, congresswoman Marcela Villatoro, from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), said that for constituency number 15 it would be ideal to subtract deputies from the departments that record the highest migration rates; that is, La Uni\u00f3n, Caba\u00f1as, Chalatenango, San Miguel, Moraz\u00e1n and Usulut\u00e1n;<\/strong> but not to the departments of San Salvador and La Libertad, whose migration statistics are not the highest.\n\nThe approval was supported by the majority of the deputies present, consolidating a regulatory change that responds to a historical demand of the Salvadoran diaspora and that redefines the structure of political representation in the country.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved this Thursday the ratification of a constitutional reform that enables the creation of an exclusive electoral district for Salvadorans abroad, with which this sector of the population will be able to directly elect their representatives in the Legislative Body. The vote obtained a majority support and marks a change in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27Ry","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}