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Salvador's Presidential Election
San Salvador - Left-wing opposition
candidate Mauricio Funes won El Salvador's
presidential election on Sunday, figures
released by the country's election
commission showed.
Funes of the Farabundo Marti Front for the
National Liberation Party (FMLN) garnered
51.27 percent of the vote against 48.73
percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling
conservative ARENA party, according to the
figures.
Funes, born in 1959 and one of the most
influential media workers in El Salvador,
has promised to push reform in education,
health and to fight poverty in the country.
As one of the two major political parties in
El Salvador, the FMLN participated in the
country's presidential elections in
1994,1999 and 2004.
The FMLN, a former guerrilla organization,
became a legal political party in 1992.
More than 4.22 million people registered for
Sunday's election, accounting for some 63
percent of the country's population.
Four candidates were competing for the
presidency, with Avila and Funes seen as the
two main contenders.
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