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Front for National Liberation (FMLN) of El
Salvador starts the closure of its electoral
campaign for the presidential elections on
March 15 in this Central American country.
Coming from different departments, the
caravans will arrive in the capital in the
afternoon to support FMLN, currently the
country's top political force, after the
municipal and legislative elections on
January 18.
The culmination of the marches will be an
activity in which FMLN secretary general
Medardo Gonzalez and the candidates for
president and vicepresident, Mauricio Funes
y Salvador Sánchez Cerén, will speak.
The Juan Pablo II park in San Salvador will
be the site of the meeting, which will
finish with a musical carnival, said
campaign head Roberto Lorenzana.
A total of 700,000 citizens will take part
in the celebration.
The electoral schedule establishes that
campaigning must conclude on Wednesday.
Nearly 4.2 million Salvadorans will vote on
March 15 and according to official
calculations, attendance to the ballot boxes
will exceed 60 percent.
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