El Salvador: FMLN
Favorite for Elections
SAN SALVADOR - The
opposition National
Farabundo Martí
Liberation Front (FMLN)
maintains Saturday the
sympathy of the
Salvadorans with an eye
toward the presidential
elections, while the
ruling party,
Nationalist Republican
Alliance (ARENA) still
looks for its formula.
The aspirant for
President for ARENA,
former boss of the Civil
National Police Rodrigo
Avila, said Friday that
Salvadoran entrepreneur
Arturo Zablah can figure
among the pre-candidates
to accompany him.
He also assured that
another two names are in
study and clarified that
before November, he will
let know who the chosen
one will be.
The FMLN duet,
integrated by Mauricio
Funes and Salvador
Sanchez, maintains 3,1
percentual points of
electoral preference
above the ARENA
aspirant, according to
the most recent survey
by LPG Datos.
The legislative and
municipal elections in
this Central American
nation will take place
January 18, 2009 and the
presidential ones
following March 15. More
than 4,2 million
Salvadorans are convoked
to go to the ballot
boxes.
If FMLN wins, it would
be the first time that
the leftwing leads the
country and it would
break up with the serial
government of rightwing
ARENA, now in its fifth
consecutive mandate.
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