Alexia Rivas
Alexia Rivas | |
|---|---|
| Second Vice President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador | |
| Assumed office 6 June 2024 | |
| President | Ernesto Castro |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Ayala |
| Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from San Salvador | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Katheryn Alexia Rivas González |
| Party | Nuevas Ideas |
| Alma mater | University of El Salvador |
| Occupation | Politician |
Katheryn Alexia Rivas González is a Salvadoran politician. She has served as the Second Vice President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador since 2024.
Education
[edit]Rivas earned a degree in international relations from the University of El Salvador, where she also received a diploma in political economy in 2013.[1] She is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in legal studies at the Panamerican University of El Salvador.[1]
Career
[edit]Professionally, she has worked in the private sector since 2015, and from 2019 to 2021 she served as the international affairs coordinator at the Ministry of Health’s Office of International Relations and Health Cooperation.[1]
In the 2021 legislative election, Rivas got elected member of the Legislative Assembly for Nuevas Ideas party representing San Salvador Department.[2] Rivas chaired the Woman and Gender Equality Committee.[3] She got re-elected in the 2024 legislative election.[4][5] She is member of the National Security and Justice and Political Committees.[6]
On 6 June 2024 Rivas was elected and sworn in Second Vice President of the Legislative Assembly, to succeed Rodrigo Ayala.[7]
On 28 June 2026, Rivas announced she will seek re-election as candidate of Salvadoran diaspora.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "PERFIL PÚBLICO DIPUTADA KATHERYN ALEXIA RIVAS GONZÁLEZ" [PUBLIC PROFILE OF DEPUTY KATHERYN ALEXIA RIVAS GONZÁLEZ]. Legislative Assembly of El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ Hernández, Nancy (6 April 2021). "Salvadoreños eligieron a 23 mujeres diputadas, la representación femenina más baja en años. Conoce sus perfiles" [Salvadorans elected 23 women to Congress, the lowest level of female representation in years. Learn more about them]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ "El pueblo salvadoreño convoca públicamente a diputados/as a dar iniciativa a la propuesta de Ley de Identidad de Género" [The Salvadoran people are publicly calling on members of Congress to introduce a bill on the Gender Identity Act]. Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD) (Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD) (in Spanish). 18 August 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ "Conoce los diputados electos para la Asamblea Legislativa 2024-2027 de El Salvador" [Meet the elected representatives of El Salvador’s 2024–2027 Legislative Assembly]. Diario La Huella (in Spanish). 14 February 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ Magaña, Yolanda (4 April 2024). "Las marcas que logró cada uno de los 60 diputados electos 2024-2027" [The vote totals for each of the 60 elected deputies for the 2024–2027 term]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ "Katheryn Alexia Rivas González". Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ Crespín, Verónica (6 June 2024). "Alexia Rivas asume como segunda vicepresidenta de Asamblea Legislativa" [Alexia Rivas takes office as second vice president of the Legislative Assembly]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ↑ "Diputada Alexia Rivas buscará su reelección como candidata por la diáspora salvadoreña". El Mundo (in Spanish). 28 June 2026. Retrieved 29 June 2026.