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Caribbean & Central America - December 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: FMLN and Arena squeeze out Saca
El Salvador’s elections are traditionally a highly polarised contest pitting the leftist Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) against the right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena). For much of the year, it had seemed like the 2 February 2014 presidential election might buck this trend; former president Tony Saca (2004- 2009), running for a new coalition Movimiento Unidad promising a third way, was tying in opinion polls with FMLN candidate Vice-President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and Arena candidate, Norman Quijano, the former mayor of San Salvador (2009-2013). As election day approaches, however, voters are reverting to type, and it looks like being a two-horse race between Sánchez Cerén and Quijano.
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