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Saúl Enrique Mancía

Saúl Enrique Mancía (born 1983 or 1984) is a Salvadoran politician and communications specialist who has served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the department of Chalatenango since 2021. He serves as a member of the agriculture commission and the public works, transportation, and housing commission. Mancía is a member of Nuevas Ideas.

Saúl Enrique Mancía
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from Chalatenango
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 May 2021
Personal details
Born1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)
NationalitySalvadoran
Political partyNuevas Ideas
Other political
affiliations		Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Alma materUniversity of El Salvador
OccupationPolitician

Early life

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Saúl Enrique Mancía was born in 1983 or 1984.[1]

Mancía graduated from the University of El Salvador in 2014 as a Bachelor of Journalism.[2] Mancía and José Raúl Hernández Maldonado published a joint thesis regarding the 2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce on 26 August 2014.[3][4]

From October 2009 to August 2012, Mancía worked as a general producer for National Television of El Salvador. From October 2013 to February 2014, he worked as a producer for Channel 29.[5]

Early political career

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From May 2009 to May 2012, Mancía served as an alderman on the San Ignacio municipal council as a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.[1]

From August 2012 to July 2019, Mancía served as a communications technical specialist for the National Medication Directorate. From 8 August 2019 to 15 August 2020, he served as the chief of promotion, advertising, and communications for the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.[2][5]

Mancía has experience working in the agriculture and livestock industries.[6]

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly

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Mancía ran as a candidate for deputy to the Legislative Assembly from the department of Chalatenango during the 2021 legislative election. He ran as a candidate from Nuevas Ideas and was the party's second candidate in Chalatenango, after Francisco Alexander Guardado Deras.[7] During his campaign, Mancía criticized the political opposition in the Legislative Assembly for its reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and for blocking Bukele's political agenda within the legislature. He also claimed that the incumbent deputies from Chalatenango "have never represented the department and have never carried out actions which really benefited the department's population" ("nunca han representado al departamento y jamás han realizado acciones que beneficien realmente a la población de la localidad").[8] Mancía was elected as a deputy on election day[7] with 14,059 marks. He was the third of three proprietary deputies elected,[9] and Krissa Osiris Marín Jiménez was elected as Mancía's supplement deputy.[10]

Mancía is a permanent member of the agriculture commission[11] and the public works, transportation, and housing commission, on which he holds the position of orator;[12] Mancía was also a member of an ad hoc commission to study and draft the Water Resources Law in June 2021.[13] Regarding the law, he stated that its objective was to guarantee that every community in El Salvador had access to drinking water.[14] In April 2022, the Legislative Assembly approved a bill which was proposed by Mancía which increased penalties for individuals who steal livestock.[15] Mancía supports the expansion of Uber or public transportation methods similar to Uber within El Salvador,[16] stating in January 2023 that its expansion "is necessary" ("es necesario") for the "modernization" ("modernización") of the country's public transportation system.[17] On 13 June 2023, Mancía voted to reduce the number of municipalities in El Salvador from 262 to 44. Before the law was approved, he proposed an amendment to the bill—which had been proposed by Bukele on 1 June—to reassign the district of San Fernando from Chalatenango Norte to Chalatenango Centro. Although he did not give a reason for the amendment, it was approved regardless.[18]

During Nuevas Ideas' July 2023 primary elections ahead of the 2024 general election, Mancía was elected as the party's first of two candidates for Chalatenango's two seats[a] in the Legislative Assembly with 910 votes. Hugo Dagoberto Mata Portillo was elected as Mancía's supplement deputy.[19] On 13 February 2024, after vote counting for the legislative election had been delayed by the Supreme Electoral Court due to technical issues,[20] the TSE announced that Mancía had won one of Chalatenango's legislative seats and the National Coalition Party's Reynaldo Cardoza won the second seat;[21] Mancía won 19,282 marks.[22] Mancía is the orator of the health, agriculture, and environment commission.[23]

Personal life

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Mancía is married. In May 2022, he and his wife took out a US$111,000 loan from the Mortgage Bank to purchase a plot of land in San Salvador.[24]

Electoral history

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Year Office Type Party Main opponent Party Votes for Mancía Result Swing
Total % P. ±%
2021 Deputy of the Legislative Assembly General NI N/A 14,059 N/A 3rd N/A Won Gain
2024 Deputy of the Legislative Assembly General NI N/A 19,282 N/A 1st N/A Won Hold

Publications

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Mancía has authored one thesis:

  1. Qualitative Content Analysis: The Construction of the "Truce with the Gangs" Concept in the Journalistic Information of the "Nation" Section of La Prensa Gráfica (2014, University of El Salvador; OCLC 490604191)[3][4]

Notes

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  1. ^ In June 2023, the Legislative Assembly voted to reduce the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. As a result, Chalatenango's seat count was reduced from 3 to 2.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Martínez, Lilian (5 May 2021). "¿Quiénes Son los Diputados de la Nueva Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador?" [Who Are the Deputies of the New Legislative Assembly of El Salvador?]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Perfil Público Diputado Saúl Enrique Mancía" [Deputy Saúl Enrique Mancía Public Profile]. Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b Andersen, Robin; Bergmann, Adrian (13 June 2019). Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence. New York City, New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780429576515. OCLC 1105145050. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b Hernández Maldonado, José Raúl; Mancía, Saúl Enrique (26 August 2014). "Análisis de Contenido Cualitativo: La Construcción del Concepto "Tregua Entre Pandillas" en las Informaciones Periodísticas de la Sección "Nación" de La Prensa Gráfica" [Qualitative Content Analysis: The Construction of the "Truce with the Gangs" Concept in the Journalistic Information of the "Nation" Section of La Prensa Gráfica] (PDF) (in Spanish). University of El Salvador. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Lic. Saúl Enrique Mancía (No Vigente)" [Lic. Saúl Enrique Mancía (Not Current)]. Government of El Salvador (in Spanish). 28 January 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Saúl Mancía un Líder Querido que Busca una Candidatura a Diputado por Chalatenango con Nuevas Ideas" [Saúl Mancía a Wanted Leader who Seeks a Candidacy to Deputy for Chalatenango with Nuevas Ideas]. Diario la Huella (in Spanish). 1 October 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b Velásquez, Eugenia; Carranza, Enrique (2 March 2021). "Esta es la Proyección de los Nombres de los Nuevos Diputados que Conformarán la Asamblea Legislativa 2021–2024" [This is the Projection of the Names of the New Deputies Who Will Composed the 2021–2024 Legislative Assembly]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  8. ^ Lozano, Boris (19 February 2021). "Saúl Mancía: «La Oposición Nunca ha Tenido un Respeto por la Población»" [Saúl Mancía: "The Opposition Never Had Respect for the Population"]. Diario El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  9. ^ a b Galdámez, Eddie (7 June 2023). "El Salvador Legislative Assembly 2021 to 2024 Legislative Period". El Salvador Info. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Diputado Saúl Enrique Mancía y Supplente" [Deputy Saúl Enrique Mancía and Supplement]. Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Comisión: Agropecuaria" [Commission: Agriculture]. Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  12. ^ "Comisión: Obras Públicas, Transporte, y Vivienda" [Commission: Public Works, Transportation, and Housing]. Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Comisión: Ad Hoc para que Estudie el Proyecto de Ley de Recursos Hídricos". Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Diputado Saúl Mancía: Ley de Agua Garantiza el Recurso Hídrico a las Comunidades" [Deputy Saúl Mancía: Water Law Guarantees Water Resources for Communities]. La Paz Times (in Spanish). 22 December 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  15. ^ "Aprueban Endurecer las Sanciones para Quienes Roben y Hurten Ganado" [They Increase Punishments for Those Who Steal Livestock]. La Paz Times (in Spanish). 5 April 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  16. ^ Montealegre Ibarra, Sergio Alejandro (2 February 2023). "Petro Seeks to Block Uber and Bukele to Regularize it: Contrasts in Mobility". Latin American Post. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  17. ^ Rodríguez, Milton (31 January 2023). "Diputados Inician Discusión para Regular Transportes Tipo Uber y que Paguen Impuestos" [Deputies Initiate Discussion to Regulate Uber-Like Transportation and to Pay Taxes]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  18. ^ Benítez, Beatriz (14 June 2023). "Asamblea de Bukele Modifica la División Territorial de El Salvador Sin un Estudio Técnico" [Bukele's Assembly Modifies the Territorial Division of El Salvador Without a Technical Study]. Gato Encerrado (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  19. ^ Genoves, Alessia (10 July 2023). "Nayib Bukele, Candidato a la Presidencia de Nuevas Ideas" [Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas' Candidate to the Presidency]. Contra Punto (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  20. ^ Reyes, Magdalena (5 February 2024). "Partidos de Oposición se Quejan de la Tardanza de Resultados del Escrutinio Final" [Opposition Parties Complain of the Delay of the Final Tally Results]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  21. ^ "En Directo: Resultados del Escrutinio Final Favorecen a Nuevas Ideas en la Conformación de la Asamblea Legislativa 2024–2027" [Live: Results of the Final Tally Favor Nuevas Ideas in the Composition of the 2024–2027 Legislative Assembly]. Diario la Huella (in Spanish). 13 February 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  22. ^ Alemán, Uveli (19 February 2024). "¿Quiénes son los Diputados que Conformarán la Nueva Asamblea Legislativa?" [Who are the Deputies Confirmed to the New Legislative Assembly?]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  23. ^ Magaña, Yolanda (14 May 2024). "Así se Conformarán las Nuevas Comisiones de la Asamblea Legislativa" [This Is How the New Commissions of the Legislative Assembly Are Composed]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  24. ^ Quintanilla, Jaime; Valencia, Daniel (30 January 2024). "Los $4.9 Millones en Créditos Estatales del Banco Hipotecario para 27 Funcionarios y 3 Primos de Bukele" [The $4.9 Million in State Loans from the Mortgage Bank for 27 Officials and 3 of Bukele's Cousins]. FOCOS TV (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 February 2024.

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