Rodrigo Avila (born on June 25, 1964 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is the ARENA candidate for president of El Salvador on March 15, 2009 Presidential election. Upon his nomination, Avila also became the President of Alianza Republicana Nacionalista. Rodrigo Avila is married to Celina Denys de Avila, his second wife, and has two daughters and one stepdaughter. In 1993 he joined as Sub-Director of the recently created Policía Nacional Civil (PNC), which substituted the old military police abolished during the peace accords in 1992. After the resignation of the PNC's first director, Dr. José María Monterrey, Avila assumed the top post as interim director, until his thirtieth birthday, when he was finally confirmed as permanent Director (the charter of the Policía Nacional Civil states that the director must be thirty years of age or older). Avila held this post until 1999, when the new administration of Francisco Flores took over. In 2003 he was elected as a member of congress representing La Libertad, where he was named deputy chief of the legislative faction of ARENA. After one term in the national congress, Avila was named Viceminister of Security in the administration of President Elias Antonio Saca until he resigned to become, once again, Director of the National Civilian Police.