1. Salvador Alejandro Cesar Nasralla Salum was born on 30 January 1953 and is a Honduran civil engineer, sports journalist, television presenter, businessman, and politician who served as the First Vice President of Honduras from 2022 until his resignation in 2024.
Salvador Nasralla founded the Anti-Corruption Party in 2011 and stood for president in the 2013 Honduran general election, coming in fourth place.
Salvador Nasralla ran again in the 2017 general election for the political alliance Alianza de Oposicion contra la Dictadura, comprising Liberty and Refoundation and the Innovation and Unity Party; he narrowly lost to incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez, despite widespread claims of fraud and irregularities.
Salvador Nasralla's parents, Alejandro Nasralla and Alicia Salum, are Palestinian and his mother was born in Chile.
Salvador Nasralla spent his childhood in the northern city of Trujillo, Colon.
Salvador Nasralla obtained a degree in Civil Industrial Engineering.
Salvador Nasralla subsequently earned a Master of Business Administration from the same university.
Salvador Nasralla became a professor at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, where he gave lectures on business and engineering.
Salvador Nasralla served as the head of press for the Honduran soccer team during their participation in the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
On March 3,1990, Salvador Nasralla launched "X-0 da Dinero," a quiz show offering cash prizes, which has become one of the most popular TV shows in Honduras, still airing every Sunday.
Beyond these shows, Salvador Nasralla has been the presenter and director of various programs and special events, including the Miss Honduras beauty pageant and the dance competition show "Bailando por un sueno".
Additionally, Nasralla is a columnist for Diario Diez and hosted his political proselytism program, "Salvador a las 7," which was broadcast for two years every Sunday on Hondured Channel 13 and is available on his official YouTube channel.
Salvador Nasralla has been harshly critical of the Honduran government since the 1980s.
Salvador Nasralla was the official presidential candidate for the PAC in the November 2013 elections.
Additionally, Salvador Nasralla clarified his stance regarding the Liberty and Refoundation Party, emphasizing that he had "nothing to do with Libre," in response to what he perceived as an extensive campaign by the nationalists to associate him with that political faction.
Salvador Nasralla attributed this shift in leadership to the influence of the National Party on the PAC deputies.
Salvador Nasralla disclosed that Redondo had blocked his accounts on social networks, highlighting ongoing discord within the party leadership.
In February 2016, Salvador Nasralla labeled PAC deputies Marlene Alvarenga, Kritza Perez, Ana Joselina Fortin, and a substitute deputy as traitors for not adhering to the party's guidelines during the election of the new Supreme Court of Justice, suggesting that they had received bribes for their actions.
Salvador Nasralla denied these accusations in an interview, further criticizing the PAC bench by stating it was "no longer of any use to him" because it had "compromised the future of Honduras" by electing a Court allied with President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Salvador Nasralla stated that the four deputies who had not followed the party line were now part of the National Party.
Several months later, Ana Joselina and Kritza Perez resigned from PAC, which Salvador Nasralla described as a "self-cleansing" of the political institution.
Salvador Nasralla declared himself the winner, although the TSE did not recognize the results of these elections.
On May 20,2017, amid the internal election controversy within the Anti-Corruption Party, Salvador Nasralla was introduced at an assembly as the official presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against Dictatorship.
On November 12,2019, Salvador Nasralla submitted the necessary documents to the National Electoral Council to register his new political party, the Salvador Party of Honduras.
Salvador Nasralla entered the race for president of Honduras again in 2021, this time as a candidate for the Savior Party.
Salvador Nasralla assumed office as First Vice President on 27 January 2022.
One condition of Salvador Nasralla ending his presidential campaign and endorsing Castro's was that if they gained a majority in Congress, the congressional president would be a member of the Savior Party.
Salvador Nasralla commented on the incident as "another coup like in 2009".