Pío Romero Bosque

Pío Romero Bosque

Pío Romero Bosque (* 1860 in Suchitoto ; † December 10, 1935 in Managua , Nicaragua) was President of El Salvador from March 1, 1927 to February 28, 1931 .

Life

His parents were Rosario Bosque and Serapío Romero. He studied law and he worked as a judge and prosecutor . From 1889 to 1891 he was a judge in Zacatecoluca and in 1892 he was elected to replace him in parliament. In the governments of President Jorge Meléndez (1919–1923) and Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (1923–1927) he was Minister of War and the Interior. With the support of the Meléndez-Quinonez dynasty was elected president. He took office on March 1, 1927, amid a climate of political repression. Its government minister was Manuel Mendoza .

Democracy in El Salvador

In the early 20th century, men in El Salvador had the right to vote, verbally, and publicly. There were no restrictions on the right to vote by race, literacy or class.

Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville's father , General Antonio Claramount Lucero, Military Governor of Usulután, reported that there was a noticeable decrease in the level of violence in elections during the reign of Pío Romero Bosque. It is unanimously reported that the 1931 elections, which were prepared and carried out under his rule, were carried out relatively freely and undistorted.

The means used by Pio Romero and his ministers was to cancel the election. The citizens had the right to report irregularities in the elections in their municipality. The government had the power to investigate the allegations and nullify elections involving fraud. Before the Bosque government, electoral cancellations were rare because the elections were by definition irregular. With Bosque, the election cancellations tripled. From 1919 to 1923 there were fewer than ten electoral cancellations per year, after 1927 there were just over 30.

During his presidency collapsed as a result of the 1929 global economic crisis , the coffee prices dramatically.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ elfaro February 16, 2009 Las elecciones en El Salvador y el primer episodio democrático, 1927-1931 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina	President of El Salvador March 1, 1927-28. February 1931	Arturo Araujo