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Weekly Report - 14 June 2005
EL SALVADOR: FMLN rocked by mass defections
With 10 months to go to the legislative and municipal elections, the leftist Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) last week suffered a major setback, in the form of the resignation of 300 party members, including legislators, a mayor, town councillors and activists - all exasperated by what they see as the leadership's undemocratic and unprincipled performance.
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