Felix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay is a Salvadoran politician and lawyer who is the current Vice President of El Salvador since 1 June 2019.
Biography
Ulloa was born in Chinameca, San Miguel Department, on April 6, 1951. Son of Margarita Garay and Félix Ulloa, known as the “Rector Martyr University of El Salvador” after losing his life in an attack perpetrated by paramilitaries in 1980. Graduated in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1979.
Training and career as an official
He obtained his law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain in 1979, and his PhD in Law with an outstanding degree in Cum Lauda. He has completed postgraduate studies in Public Policy and Public Administration at the International Institute of Public Administration in Paris, France, and at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota, United States. He recently completed a postgraduate degree in Banking and Finance at the Technological University of El Salvador, UTEC. He graduated of high school in San Miguel at the catholic Maristas Brothers, in his youth and as a law student, Félix Ulloa, actively participated in the university student movement, being president of the Student Electoral Tribunal of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students, AGEUS; as a lawyer, he was a member of the Legal Aid of the Externado San José, leader of the Workers Union of the Salvadoran Institute of Social Security, ISSS, STISSS, and later of the National Union of Salvadoran Workers, UNTS; becoming a broad defender of human rights by defending students, workers, the social movement and even political prisoners, all... during the armed conflict. In that period, together with other young lawyers they created the Institute of Legal Studies of El Salvador, IEJES, of which he has been president on several occasions and from which he promoted the construction of the Rule of Law, for the defense of democratic freedoms and the social justice. His extensive experience and academic quality allowed him to be a professor of Political Science and a PhD in Social Sciences at the University of El Salvador, UES, in the same way, he taught various Law courses at the Central American University "José Simeón Cañas", UCA. At the international level he was a visiting professor for several years at the Spanish School of Middelburg College in Vermont, United States and guest speaker at multiple universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other countries.
Political life
After the civil war, Dr. Félix Ulloa, is elected Magistrate of the first Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador, TSE,, an institution created by the Peace Accords; He also joined the Board of Surveillance of Political Parties ; and of the Special Sub-Commission of the CO-PAZ, editor of the Electoral Code of the post-war period. Also he was part of the Political Commission of the National Revolutionary Movement Party, MNR, of which his father was founder, party affiliated with the Socialist International, IS. ° Integrated observation and electoral assistance missions in more than twenty countries around the world. ° He is a consultant in projects related to elections, political parties and democracy of UPD / OAS, IFES, international IDEA, CAPEL, Centro Carter and NDI. ° NDI Senior Resident Director for ten years in Haiti, Morocco and Nicaragua. ° Expert of the Electoral Assistance Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs has directed several missions in Africa and Latin America.
Constitutional progress
Thanks to his tenacity, experience and knowledge in the electoral and political reform fields, Dr. Ulloa presented unconstitutionality projects against "party" laws that supported an anti-democratic Electoral System and that today allow us to move towards democracy These are the constitutional resolutions that substantially changed the electoral system, product of the demands of unconstitutionality presented by Dr. Félix Ulloa along with other Salvadoran jurists. 1. Elimination of the "National List", issued on July 26, 2010 by the Constitutional Chamber, which prevents senior political leaders from perpetuating themselves in the legislative branch. 2. Vote for face. 3. Vote crossed. 4. Residential vote. 5. Independent Deputies.
Political career
Following the invitation Nayib Bukele gave him to accompany him in the presidential formula of the Grand Alliance for National Unity, composed of political parties: WINS - CD and New Ideas; Felix Ulloa, assumes another commitment in his long trajectory of struggle and democratic apostolate. Winning the elections of February 3, 2019 for a period of five years, becoming Vice President of the Republic.
Presidential responsibilities
President Nayib Bukele, appointed Dr. Félix Ulloa, to lead Central American Integration and the International Commission Against Impunity of El Salvador, CICIES, which has the challenge of combating corruption and impunity, inside and outside the State. Likewise, by decree he is in charge of leading the Trifinio Plan, a trinational treaty that commits the vice-presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, in improving the living conditions of border communities and developing a process of environmental and territory management. the Trifinio Region.
Personal life
He is married to the psychologist Lilian Alvarenga de Ulloa since 1973 and has three children.
Publications
Dr. Ulloa has published academic articles in the United States, Mexico, Spain, France, Chile, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and in all the countries of Central America. Among them are: Money and democracy; Politics, state and society; Democratic thinking; The role of political parties in Central American institutions; The Salvadoran electoral system, 25 years after the signing of the Peace Agreements; The utopia continues; Haiti: 200 years of Elections and Constitutions; La Crise de la Démocratie Représentative; Le Systéme Électoral des États-Unis.
