El Salvador

Articles about voting issues in the Republic of El Salvador.

Examining El Salvador’s Vote | Fox News

Mar 142012
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On Sunday, El Salvador’s 4.5 million voters went to the polls to select the 84 deputies of the unicameral congress as well as the mayors of the 262 municipalities across the country.  As with most off-year elections (ones without a presidential candidate on the ballot), this election was seen as an important gauge of public sentiment in preparation for the 2014 presidential elections. There have been important changes in the political landscape of El Salvador since the last presidential election that makes this an important election to analyze.  In 2009 the FMLN, with Mauricio Funes at the lead, won the presidency after almost 20 years as the primary opposition party in the country.  In true democratic fashion, the people gave the opposition a chance to govern. For its part, after governing the country for almost two decades the center-right party ARENA was seen as stagnating and in need of rejuvenation. The final outcome of this process of entropy had seen ARENA struggling to contain fallout emanating from a brutal struggle between itself and former President Tony Saca. Read More »

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FMLN Suffers Minor Setback at the Polls | Upside Down World

Mar 142012
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By 1 p.m. in the afternoon on Sunday, the sun was beating down hard on the polling center in Metapán, a mid-sized town in El Salvador just 15 kilometers south of the Guatemalan border. While there was nothing strange about the scorching sun, these national assembly and municipal elections were the first of their kind. To the surprise of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front), the former rebel group turned political party whose candidate Mauricio Funes won the Presidency in 2009, the right-wing ARENA (National Republican Alliance) gained seats in the national assembly following electoral reforms that the right-wing had pushed through. Read More »

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Right-wing party holds slim lead in El Salvador polls | The West Australian

Mar 132012
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A right-wing opposition party on Monday led by a slim margin in El Salvador’s general election in which the leftist government of President Mauricio Funes faced a key test of its popularity. With more than 89 percent of precincts reporting, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) was ahead with slightly over 39.7 percent of the vote. It was closely followed by the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) with 36.8 percent. A conservative coalition named GANA led by ex-president Elias Antonio Saca, a congressional ally of the FMLN, was a distant third with just 9.4 percent of the ballot. Six smaller parties also fielded candidates. Read More »

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El Salvador Comments Off Topics: ARENA, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, Mauricio Funes, Nationalist Republican Alliance

No Official Results in El Salvador Elections | Prensa Latina

Mar 132012
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The Salvadorian people on Thursday still awaited the official results of Sunday”s elections, but they have witnessed several allegations of irregularities that have followed the voting. The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) has not so far issued detailed reports about the development of the process, which was delayed in its beginning and it is expected to end on Friday or Saturday. Vote counting is taking place at an exclusive hotel in San Salvador, and according to press reports, the contract will expire on Friday, forcing to move the process to the TSE building if it takes longer. The police have reinforced security in the hotel, in face of the arrival until Wednesday of many candidates to mayors, generally accompanied by followers, to present allegations of irregularities. Read More »

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El Salvador Comments Off Topics: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, Nationalist Republican Alliance, transparency

Local Elections in El Salvador May Test FMLN Legislative Plan | AS-COA

Mar 072012
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On March 11, El Salvador will hold elections for the country’s legislature and mayors in a test for the former guerrilla-group-turned-governing-party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). In 2009, the FMLN won the presidency with the victory of President Mauricio Funes, as well as 35 of 84 congressional seats. This ended the two-decade-long rule of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) following the civil war from 1980 to 1992. In the last election, the FMLN also won 96 out of 262 municipalities, but lost the vital mayoralty of San Salvador, which ARENA hopes to keep this year. In this election, the FMLN hopes to win at least 43 seats in order to have a congressional supermajority, but faces fractures within the party, as well as discontent among its base. The country’s legislative agenda could be at stake as the FMLN tries to push through reforms—and ARENA hopes to stop them. Read More »

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Parties Prepare Campaign Closing | Prensa Latina

Mar 032012

El Salvador’s political parties prepare on Friday the closing of their campaigns when there are just eight days to the municipal and legislative elections on Sunday 11. The first party to announce their activities was the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which will hold this weekend a caravan that will travel throughout the country. Previously, the general secretary of the FMLN, Medardo Gonzalez said the party is working to expand the number of its deputies in the Legislative Assembly, in which it has 35 seats of 84. Read More »

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El Salvador Comments Off Topics: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, FMLN, legislative election

El Salvador's Upcoming Vote | Huffington Post

Feb 252012

Tiny El Salvador, nestled between Honduras and Guatemala on the Pacific Ocean, has had more than its fair share of turbulence. From 1980 until 1992 the country was besieged by a violent civil war which pitted the government against the guerilla armies of the FMLN. An estimated 75,000 people died. On January 16, 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords brought silence to the field of battle. The FMLN disarmed, and agreed to participate in the political process within the confines of the constitution and the rule of law. The peace accords were followed by twenty years of rule by ARENA, the country’s conservative party. But, as is natural in democracy, after a long period of government by one party, the people were at last ready to give the other party a try, and in 2009 the FMLN’s Mauricio Funes won the Presidency. Read More »

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Legislative Elections in El Salvador: Possible Scenarios and Implications | Americas Quarterly

Feb 202012

El Salvador is heading toward another important electoral event within the next month. On March 11 Salvadorans will cast their votes to elect 262 mayors and 84 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. The results, especially for the legislative election, will shape the remaining two years of the Funes presidency. The latest polls show a strong political opposition led by the conservative Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, ARENA, with higher voter preference over Funes’ governing, left of center, Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional, FMLN. President Mauricio Funes still maintains high approval ratings however it seems like his apparent likeability among voters isn’t translating into potential votes for his party. Some argue that this may be the result of Funes (and the FMLN) maintaining a complex relationship filled with public disagreements on some issues and coincidences on others. Read More »

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El Salvador Comments Off Topics: Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional, legislative election, Mauricio Funes

Salvador to have absentee vote in 2014 election | Associated Press

Jun 102011

Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes says his Central American country will allow citizens living abroad to vote in the 2014 presidential election.

Funes says a government commission is looking into the necessary steps to implement absentee voting. He says the commission is getting advice from nations that already permit citizens out of the country to cast ballots. Read More »

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