Rank-order rules

MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION OF PARITY. … In the lists of Deputies to the National Congress and the Central American Parliament, parity is applicable to both the list of owners and substitutes and in the event that it is odd for Deputies to the National Congress, the difference in the total number of men and women should not be greater than one. (Article 74)

ALTERNATION. The lists of candidates presented to the National Electoral Council (CNE) must use the mechanism of alternation by gender (woman-man or man-woman) in such a way that two (2) people of the same sex cannot be consecutively on the list. This mechanism must be applied to popularly elected positions at the presidential elective level with their appointees, at the elective level of the National Congress on the list of owners and the municipal elective level in relation to the position of Mayor and Councilor; ... The alternation is excepted, preserving parity, in the lists of candidates for substitute deputies. (Article 75)