Politics of El Salvador - wikipedia Politics of El Salvador El Salvador This article is part of a series on the politics and government of El Salvador Constitution Constitutional history Abortion law LGBT rights Executive President Salvador Sánchez Cerén Vice President Óscar Ortiz Legislature Legislative Assembly President : Sigfrido Reyes Morales Administrative divisions Departments Municipalities Elections Recent elections Presidential : 2004 2009 2014 Legislative : 2012 2015 2018 Political parties Foreign relations Minister of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic missions Passport Visa requirements Other countries Atlas This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2018 ) Politics of El Salvador takes place in land a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of an Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Legislative Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated El Salvador as `` flawed democracy '' in 2016. Contents 1 Political culture 2 Executive branch 3 Legislative branch 4 Judicial branch 5 Foreign relations 6 References 7 External links Political culture Further information : List of political parties in El Salvador and Elections in El Salvador El Salvador has a multi-party system. Two political parties, the Nationalist Republican Alliance ( ARENA ) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) have tended to dominate elections. 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. Executive branch Main office holders Office Name Party Since President Salvador Sánchez Cerén Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 1 June 2014 El Salvador elects its head of state -- the President of El Salvador -- directly through a fixed - date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority. If an absolute majority ( 50 % + 1 ) is not achieved by any candidate in the first round of a presidential election, then a run - off pool election is conducted 30 days later between the two candidates who obtained the most votes in the first round. The presidential period is five years. Consecutive re-election is not permitted, though previously elected presidents may run for a second, non-consecutive term. Legislative branch Main article : Legislative Assembly of El Salvador Salvadorans also elect a single - chamber, unicameral national legislature -- the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador -- of 84 members ( deputies ) elected by closed - list proportional representation for three - year terms, with the possibility of immediate re-election. Twenty of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly are elected on the basis of a single national constituency. The remaining 64 are elected in 14 multi-member constituencies ( corresponding to El Salvador 's 14 departments ). They range from 3 - 16 seats each according to department population size. Judicial branch Main article : Court system of El Salvador The Judiciary, headed by the Supreme Court, is composed of 15 judges, one of them being elected as President of the Judiciary. Foreign relations Further information : Foreign relations of El Salvador El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Central American Common Market ( CACM ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), and the Central American Integration System ( SICA ). It actively participates in the Central American Security Commission ( CASC ), which seeks to promote regional arms control. El Salvador also is a member of the World Trade Organization and is pursuing regional free trade agreements. An active participant in the Summit of the Americas process, El Salvador chairs a working group on market access under the Free Trade Area of the Americas initiative. References Jump up ^ solutions, EIU digital. `` Democracy Index 2016 - The Economist Intelligence Unit ''. www.eiu.com. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 30. 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Question: what type of political system does el salvador have
Answer: "flawed democracy"; presidential representative democratic republic; presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of an Executive power is exercised by the government; presidential representative democratic republic; a presidential representative democratic republic