Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman currently serving as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019. He is the first Salvadoran president since 1989 who was not elected as a candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), of which Bukele was formerly a member.
Official portrait, 2019
Bukele at the opening of the La Colmenita children's theater
Bukele at the XVIII summit of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities
Then-Mayor Bukele with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén in May 2015
The president of El Salvador, officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador, is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador. He is also, by constitutional law, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. The office was created in the Constitution of 1841. From 1821 until 1841, the head of state of El Salvador was styled simply as Head of State.
President of El Salvador
Image: Presidente Nayib Bukele (cropped)
Image: José Matias Delgado
Image: Vicente Filisola