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Weekly Report - 12 October 2017 (WR-17-40)

El Salvador’s political landscape faces major upheaval

El Salvador’s most popular politician no longer belongs to a party. The ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) expelled Nayib Bukele, the mayor of San Salvador, this week, ostensibly for “verbal aggression” towards a party councillor, Xochilt Marchelli, at a municipal council meeting last month. Bukele’s well-documented differences with the FMLN party hierarchy have suggested for while that his days might be numbered. The only thing staying the party’s hand was the fact that opinion polls repeatedly show Bukele to be far more popular than any other FMLN politician.

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