LatinNews Daily Report - 21 August 2012

POLITICS | Quijano confirmed for 2014. On 20 August the party leadership committee (Coena) of the main right-wing opposition party, the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena), confirmed San Salvador’s mayor, Norman Quijano, as its presidential candidate ahead of the March 2014 presidential election (see Quijano’s profile). The announcement followed a selection process by Coena, in which the other main aspirants - Ana Vilma de Escobar, the former vice-president under the administration of Tony Saca (2004-2009); Francisco Laínez, a former foreign minister under Saca; Deputy Edwin Zamora; and Mercedes Gloria Salguero Gross, a founder of Arena, former party president (1996-97) and member of Coena (1991-97) - were told to step aside. Quijano will face Vice-President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, of the incumbent left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).

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