President of the Federation of Central America

  

The President of Central America is the head of state and head of government of the Federation of Central America. The President is the head of the executive branch, the commander in-chief of the Armed Forces of Central America, and the chairperson of the Federal Security Commission. The presidency is the highest ranking office in the country ahead of the two Vice Presidents of Central America. FCA is the only country in the world that the head of state has two deputies.

President of Federation of Central America (FCA)
Incumbent Maria Magaña since May 2, 2022
Style	Excelentísimo Señor (male) Excelentísima Señora (female)
Type	Executive
Member of	Cabinet of Central America Federal Security Commission
Residence	Casa Libertad
Appointer	Direct popular vote Two-round system
Term length	Five years, non-renewable
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Central America
Formation	January 16, 1986 (1986-01-16)
First holder	Alonzo de Guzmán

The current president is Maria Magaña of the Democratic Alliance after being elected in 2022 and succeeded Jorge Marroquin of the Nationalist Party, who was elected in 2017 and served until 2022.

Election

The President of Central America had selected in their party primary to be elected through two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 20% of the vote advances to the second round. If no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff is held between the two candidates with the largest number of votes. If a candidate in a first place have votes by the supermajority, there would be no second round.

List

No.	Portrait	Name	Party	Term of office		Hometown	Vice Presidents
(-)		Alonzo de Guzmán Carazo	Non-partisan	Jan. 16, 1986	May 2, 1987	Comayagua, Honduras	Fernando Pacheco	Ricardo Solís
1		Leonel Aguilar Murillo	Nationalist	May 2, 1987	May 2, 1992	Guatemala City, Guatemala	Sebastian Mejía	Estuardo Araya
2		Geovanni Valverde Barreto	Democratic Alliance	May 2, 1992	May 2, 1997	La Libertad, Nicaragua	Felipe Segovia	Jorge Morales
3		Alonzo de Guzmán Carazo	Nationalist	May 2, 1997	May 2, 2002	Comayagua, Honduras	Isaías Núñez	Victoria Pacheco
4		Isaías Núñez Arias	Nationalist	May 2, 2002	May 2, 2007	San José, Costa Rica	David Noriega	Martín Navarro
5		Sergio Cañizares Espinosa	Democratic Alliance	May 2, 2007	May 2, 2012	San Vicente, El Salvador	Hernán Soria	Avelino Jiménez
6		Beatriz Santana Herrera	Social Demcratic	May 2, 2012	May 2, 2017	Escazú, Costa Rica	Pánfilo Ponce	Guillermo Revelo
7		Jorge Marroquin Varela	Nationalist	May 2, 2017	May 2, 2022	Guatemala City, Guatemala	Alejo Orellana	Lucía Velázquez
8		Maria Magaña de la Cruz	Democratic Alliance	May 2, 2022	Incumbent	Santa Bárbara, Honduras	Eva Campbell	Hilario Barrios

See also

• Politics of Central America
• Government of Central America