Weekly Report - 7 May 2015 (WR-15-18)

El Salvador’s President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has expressed his concern about a “power vacuum” after only 60 deputies in the 84-seat legislative assembly took their seats on 1 May. This after the constitutional chamber of the supreme court (CSJ) ordered the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) to reopen the relevant ballot boxes for the legislative elections in the department of San Salvador, which supplies the remaining 24 deputies. There is an enormous amount at stake. If the recount produces even the smallest change to the TSE’s official results from the 1 March elections it could mean the balance of power in the unicameral legislative assembly passes from the opposition to the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).

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