Weekly Report - 15 January 2015 (WR-15-02)

El Salvador’s President Salvador Sánchez Cerén appealed to voters at the weekend to think long and hard about whom to back in the country’s legislative and municipal elections on 1 March. Sánchez Cerén argued that his government needs legislative “support” to approve pending loans of more than US$650m, which he said were necessary to improve schools, the health service, sport and housing across the country. The political opposition accused Sánchez Cerén of blatant interference in the electoral campaign, which officially began on 31 December, and called on the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) to sanction him.

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