Ruler · 1947 – present

Alfredo Cristiani

Born 1947, living; politician. President of El Salvador (El Salvador), 1989 – 1994.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: since 1947; living
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; El Salvador
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of El Salvador

El Salvador · the 49th of 55 dated reigns · 1839 – 2019

45 before

Arturo Armando Molina1972 – 1977

Álvaro Magaña1982 – 1984

José Napoleón Duarte1984 – 1989

Alfredo Cristiani1989 – 1994

Armando Calderón Sol1994 – 1999

Francisco Flores Pérez1999 – 2003

Antonio Saca2004 – 2009

3 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1989 – 1994 · 5 years · came to it aged 42

Came to it: elected
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

In the 1989 presidential election, Cristiani was elected President with 53.8% of the vote.

He retired from politics in 1994 when his presidential term ended, and returned as president of the ARENA party in 2009 after the first presidential defeat of ARENA in twenty years.

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