Félix Ulloa

Following an invitation from Nayib Bukele to accompany him in the presidential formula of the Grand Alliance for National Unity, consisting of the political parties GANA - CD and New Ideas; Ulloa, ran for Vice-President. Winning the elections of 3 February 2019, he became the Vice President-elect of the Republic and took office on 1 June 2019 alongside President-elect Nayib Bukele.

After the civil war, Ulloa was elected Magistrate of the first Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador from 1994 to 1999. He also joined the Board of Surveillance of Political Parties from 1993 to 1994 and the Special Sub-Commission of the CO-PAZ. He was an editor of the Electoral Code during 1992 and 1993. He was part of the Political Commission of the National Revolutionary Movement Party, of which his father was founder, which is affiliated with the Socialist International.

Ulloa obtained his law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain in 1979, and received his PhD in Law cum laude. He 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 also completed a postgraduate degree in Banking and Finance at the Technological University of El Salvador, UTEC.

He married psychologist Lilian Alvarenga de Ulloa in 1973, and has three children.

Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay (born 6 April 1951) is a Salvadoran politician and lawyer who became Vice President of El Salvador on 1 June 2019.

Ulloa was born in Chinameca, San Miguel Department, on 6 April 1951. He is the son of Margarita Garay and Félix Ulloa. He graduated from high school in San Miguel, at the catholic Maristas Brothers. His father became known as the “Rector Martyr University of El Salvador”, after losing his life in an attack perpetrated by paramilitaries in 1980.