The director of the supreme court’s institute of legal medicine (IML), José Miguel Fortín Magaña, said the thrombosis could have been caused by a lack of physical activity since Flores was imprisoned at the national police (PNC)’s anti-narcotics division (DAN). Fortín said “everyone would lose” if Flores died and the government’s image abroad would be seriously affected. Both the human rights procurator and the PNC complained that Flores was being given special privileges and should have been treated in a public hospital where it would have been easier to keep him under surveillance.
On the same day as Flores was transferred, the legislative assembly approved a second report drawn up by a special legislative commission set up to investigate the former president with 51 votes out of 84. This includes the crimes of money and asset laundering among the charges levelled at Flores. Crucially, it also calls for a further probe into the misuse of some of the Taiwanese loans by Arena, the party for which Flores was elected. This could be potentially damaging for Arena in the run-up to legislative and municipal elections on 1 March 2015.
On 31 October the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) officially launched the start of the electoral process. Registration for candidates for the legislative assembly began on 3 November and will conclude on 9 January, with the formal campaign starting on 31 December. An early poll just released by CID-Gallup gave Nayib Bukele, the candidate for mayor of San Salvador for the nationally ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), a lead of 18 percentage points (43%-25%) over Edwin Zamora, Arena’s candidate. Zamora, however, has only just been chosen by Arena to run in place of the party’s incumbent mayor, Norman Quijano [WR-14-41].
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