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Weekly Report - 15 March 2018 (WR-18-10)
EL SALVADOR: FMLN pummelled in congressional elections
The ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) suffered the heaviest defeat of its history in El Salvador’s congressional and municipal elections on 4 March. The exact scale of the defeat was not immediately apparent due to a fault in the electronic voting system, delaying the start of the final count. But what swiftly became evident was that President Salvador Sánchez Cerén will face a much more hostile legislative assembly for his remaining 15 months in power, with the right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) the chief beneficiary of the ‘punishment vote’ the FMLN received at the polls.
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