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Weekly Report - 24 September 2009 (WR-09-38)
EL SALVADOR: Deal struck over new attorney general
The ruling leftwing
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and the rightwing
opposition, led by the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) have finally
reached an agreement over the appointment of a new attorney general (FGR),
after five months of stalemate. The position is essential to President Mauricio
Funes's declared offensive on crime. On the face of it, the choice of Romeo
Benjamín Barahona Meléndez, a former deputy FGR under successive Arena
administrations, looks like a greater concession to the opposition, but it is
arguably Funes who emerges the stronger, having been forced to facilitate in the
latter stages of negotiations.
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