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Caribbean & Central America - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: Arena gives FMLN a leg up
If re-election in El Salvador were legal President Mauricio Funes would be a shoo-in on 2 February next year. He cannot stand, however, and, most pertinently, his high level of popularity will not transfer en masse to the party with which he came to power in 2009 – the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN). There are signs, however, that the FMLN could possibly gain power for itself in 2014: the FMLN slipped badly in the polls initially by selecting a former guerrilla as its presidential candidate, a policy which has always backfired badly in the past, but the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) has surrendered its early advantage through disunity and perverse policy promises.
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