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Weekly Report - 13 March 2014 (WR-14-10)
EL SALVADOR: Arena challenges wafer-thin FMLN victory
Salvador Sánchez Cerén should become the first member of the left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) to be sworn in as president on 1 June after winning a desperately close run-off against Norman Quijano, of the right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena), on 9 March. After days of uncertainty, in the early hours of 13 March the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) completed the count, showing Sánchez Cerén won by just 6,364 votes out of nearly 3m. The TSE cannot proclaim him the winner, however, until it considers a petition by Arena calling for the elections to be annulled. Sánchez Cerén’s victory is likely to be confirmed but he will need to work hard to bolster his legitimacy.
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