LatinNews Daily Report - 25 February 2014

POLITICS | Flores’ investigation to be made public after 9 March presidential run-off. On 24 February El Salvador’s attorney general, Luis Martínez, announced that the results of the investigation into former president, Francisco Flores (1999-2004, Alianza Republicana Nacionalista [Arena])  in relation to the embezzlement of a US$10m donation from Taiwan would not be made public until after the 9 March presidential run-off in order to prevent it from becoming an “electoral issue”. The corruption allegations surrounding Flores, who was forced to step down as chief advisor to Arena’s presidential candidate, former San Salvador mayor Norman Quijano (2009-2012), have been a major setback for the opposition party,  which in a further bid to distance itself from Flores, announced on 22 February that his rights as a party member had been suspended. Arena’s last ditch bid to boost its credibility is ultimately unlikely to make much of a difference given that the latest polls put the candidate of the ruling left-wing Fretne Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), Vice-President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, in the lead by some ten percentage points.

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