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Caribbean & Central America - May 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: Opposition secures balance of power
More than two months after legislative elections were held on 1 March, and after deputies were meant to take up their seats in the 84-seat legislative assembly on 1 May, the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) finally concluded the most protracted electoral process on record in El Salvador. Ironically, the final composition of the assembly for the next three years is almost identical to the previous three-year term, except that the one additional deputy won by the opposition bloc controlled by the right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) means that it will be able to stymie legislative reforms pursued by the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).
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