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	Politics of El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of El Salvador takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		El Salvador elects its head of state – the President of El Salvador – directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority.
		The most recent presidential election, held on 21 March 2004, resulted in the election of Tony Saca of the ARENA party with almost 58 percent of the vote, the highest in Salvadoran history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_El_Salvador (1780 words)

	Kolbe (AZ08) - Statement or Testimony - Kolbe Statement on Yesterday's Elections in El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the Department of San Salvador, IRI deployed three two-member teams to observe Juntas in the municipalities of Mejicanos, Soyapango, Aguilares, El Paisnal, Guazapa, Apopa, and Cuidad Delgado.
		Concerns over election day confrontations or violence were not borne out and people were generally calm and patient as they cast their votes.
		El Salvador’s national police deserve special recognition for their professionalism and their highly visible presence at polling stations as a symbol of law and order in the voting process.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/hearing/az08_kolbe/042203_el_salvador.html (982 words)

	El Salvador Elections
		The El Salvador case falls between the Chilean experience, where there was virtually no change at any level, and the early Argentine experience where the top Generals were put on trial and even served a short prison sentence.
		In El Salvador the transition accelerates and deepens the application of the neoliberal agenda—as was the case in the rest of Latin America.
		The overall effects of the transitions in Salvador and Latin America are quite similar—the deepening of neoliberalism, the decline of the reformist impulse within the electoral left, the emergence of a polarized class struggle that pits the state against the socio-political movements and the re-emergence of authoritarians with a legal face.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/petrasjuly97.html (7244 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		For the congressional and presidential elections from 1982-1994 gives by party the number and percent of votes won and then gives the number and percent of valid and null votes in each election.
		Gives for elections from 1950-1966 for presidential elections the date of the election, total vote, and number and percent of votes for major candidates; and for congressional elections the number and percent of votes for major parties.
		All material contained in Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/elsalvador/general.html (2788 words)

	Elections in El Salvador - Thomas R. Pickering's address to the World Affairs Council, March 1, 1984 - transcript US ...
		In El Salvador, the government has taken major steps to open the door to all qualified voters in an internationally observed process with clear and careful steps to prevent fraud.
		The fact is and has been that the guerrillas have been embarrased by their opposition to the 1982 elections and have openly admitted that embarrassment in recent statements--a backhanded admission of the importance which the El Salvador electoral process has achieved in the eyes of the world.
		The purpose of those elections was to choose a body to write a new constitution, appoint a government, and enact necessary laws.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1079/is_v84/ai_3200112 (925 words)

	El Salvador: Elections of the Century
		The elections were the first since the January 1992 peace treaty ended a decade-long civil war that took the lives of over 75,000 Salvadorans, the great majority of them non-combatants.
		The overarching goals of this first post-war election, gave rise to expectations -- perhaps more so among international observers and El Salvador's political class than among a doubting electorate -- that the 1993-94 electoral process would be a model of probity.
		Election Costs: The total costs of the election were (to the extent they are knowable) extremely high for a poor country.
	www.fairvote.org /reports/1995/chp7/spence.html (1653 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications: Americas : El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The report calls on El Salvador to strengthen its labor laws by requiring reinstatement for workers illegally fired or suspended for legitimate trade union activity, banning anti-union hiring discrimination, and streamlining union registration requirements according to ILO recommendations.
		As El Salvador winds up the campaign for presidential, legislative, and municipal elections scheduled for March 20, 1994, no issue represents a greater threat to the peace process than the rise in political murders of leaders and grassroots activists belonging to the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
		The massacre at El Mozote, probably the largest mass killing reported during the war, was a formative experience for most of the thousands of peasants and many of the guerrillas in northern Morazán.
	hrw.org /reports/world/elsalvador-pubs.php (2065 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - El Salvador \| PBS
		Passing through customs at El Salvador's international airport and emerging into the humid afternoon air, the first thing in my line of vision is a crowd of about 1,000 who have come by the truckload, children in tow, men wearing cowboy hats, to greet relatives returning home.
		El Salvador is the only other country in the Americas still contributing troops to the coalition in Iraq.
		El Salvador's president, Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca, sent 381 soldiers to Iraq in response to an appeal from the Bush administration, despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war with most Salvadorans.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/elsalvador (4221 words)

	El Salvador's Election: The Party Lineup
		Pressures for change increased dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s when El Salvador underwent an economic surge, surpassing all other Central American countries in growth A consequence of this growth was the rise of a middle class that was less tolerant of the closed political system dominated by the traditional elites.
		Duarte had left El Salvador in 1972 after an election he is widely believed to have won was altered in favor of Col. Arturo Armando Molina of the National Reconcilia tion Party.
		Following that election, in which no one party received a majority of the votes, an agreement was made among most of the parties for the formation of the government.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/bg339.cfm (2918 words)

	The Afghan, El Salvador, and Iraq Elections, printer friendly
		In speaking of the “free elections” held in El Salvador, Cheney does not mention that the left did not offer candidates and couldn’t do so because all their leaders who had not been murdered were on a 138 person army death list.
		Whereas, in dealing with the Sandinista election of 1984 that threatened to legitimize a government under U.S. attack, little or no attention was paid to turnout and a great deal of attention and indignation focused on the voluntary withdrawal from the election of an opposition candidate, who happened to be on the CIA payroll.
		What makes these elections unfree is not so much the technical failures and fraud in the use of the electoral machinery, sometimes substantial, as the fact that each election is being imposed from without by a party with an axe to grind and does not come from indigenous sources.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Dec2004/hermanpr1204.html (1832 words)

	Bus Riders Union - From the Frontlines: El Salvador
		We headed to El Salvador to act as official international observers of the historical electoral showdown between the right-wing ruling ARENA party (Alianza Republicana Nacional-National Republican Alliance) and the left-wing FMLN (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional).
		As a result, El Salvador enters the 21st century on the edge of loosing its political, economic and cultural national sovereignty to transnational capital, the United States government, and the various economic and military appendages of the US like the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of American States.
		The FMLN´s presidential candidate is Jorge Shafik Handal, of Palestinian descent, a former chair of the Communist Party of El Salvador and one of the five commanders of the FMLN´s military and political leadership during the civil war.
	www.busridersunion.org /engli/WhatsNew/News/From-San-Salvador.htm (1513 words)

	The USA And The El Salvador Elections Of 2004 By James A. Lucas
		People in El Salvador would no longer be able to receive remittances from their 2 million relatives who live in the U.S. Their economy would suffer a further blow if the temporary work visas (TPS) of about 290,000 Salvadorans in the U.S. were revoked.
		The people of El Salvador already had reason to be afraid of the U.S., since they knew how our government previously victimized them during their 12 year civil war by providing a million dollars a day in military assistance to support both the death squads and also the ARENA party against the FMLN.
		El Dario de Hoy alluded to a comment by Douglas Barclay that the U.S. would determine the type of support and relations according to what the elected candidate decided.
	www.countercurrents.org /us-lucas100105.htm (1497 words)

	Post El Salvador Elections, March 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		WOLA staff visited El Salvador during the days prior to the elections, meeting with U.S. Embassy staff, representatives of Salvadoran political parties, and representatives from a wide-range of civil society and non-governmental organizations.
		While the U.S. has legitimate interests in El Salvador, official U.S. comments in the context of an electoral campaign must be carefully chosen and should not be used to influence electoral processes or sway the votes of the electorate.
		As other elections approach in Latin America (municipal elections will be held in November in Nicaragua, and there is uncertainty over whether or not elections will be called in Venezuela), the U.S. should respect and support institutional democratic processes, rather than pick winners and losers.
	www.wola.org /central_america/salvador/post_elections_memo_march04.htm (1148 words)

	Report from El Salvador's Elections Spectrezine
		The CDU is led by Hector Silva, the ex-mayor of San Salvador who left the Frente for the center, and the PDC is the party of José Napolean Duarte, the Partido Democratica Cristiana which has been trying to find a political center in El Salvador for over 20 years.
		election will be decided between the party of the left born of the guerilla group of the same name, the Partido Faribundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and the right wing party created by the Roberto D'Aubuisson.the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA).
		confidence in an El Salvador led by a person who is obviously an admirer of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, as we have today in (ARENA President) Flores." Reich continued to warn that a win by the FMLN would cause a reevaluation of the United States relationship with El Salvador.
	www.spectrezine.org /resist/FMLN.htm (1396 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		Baloyra-Herp, Enrique A. "Elections, civil war, and transition in El Salvador, 1982-1994: a preliminary evaluation." Seligson, Mitchell A. and John A. Booth, eds.
		García, José Z. "El Salvador: recent elections in historical perspective." Booth, John A. and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds.
		El Salvador in the eighties: counterinsurgency and revolution.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/elsalvador/sources.html (1944 words)

	El Salvador Elections Frank Kendrick in Spectrezine
		To the surprise of many, the El Salvador presidential race brought out a record number of voters who gave Tony Saca (ARENA) a resounding 57.74 percent of their votes, over 36.65 percent for the FMLN candidate, Schafik Handal.
		With El Salvador, as was the case with Nicaragua and Bolivia, the U.S. severely qualified its alleged respect for democratization, indicating that such support is contingent upon the right candidate (by Washington’s standards) winning the race.
		The entire script relating to the March 21 Salvadoran presidential election had less to do with how well El Salvador’s institutions performed, than it had to do with US policymakers exhibiting their indifference towards the legitimate functioning of democratic processes.
	www.spectrezine.org /resist/Elsalvador.htm (2570 words)

	El Salvador - The 1972 Elections
		The legislative and municipal elections of March 1970 were discouraging for the PDC, as it dropped three seats in the Legislative Assembly and lost control of seventy municipalities.
		In El Salvador, organizational efforts by leftist parties such as the PCES and by activist Roman Catholic clergy were viewed with alarm by conservative sectors.
		The fears of the economic elite in particular were provoked by the 1971 kidnapping and murder of Ernesto Regalado Duenas, the son of a prominent family, by a leftist terrorist organization calling itself "the Group".
	countrystudies.us /el-salvador/11.htm (1505 words)

	publish.nyc.indymedia.org \| Elections updates from El Salvador: FMLN expects victory despite fraud and violence
		March 12 marks the legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador with the leftist FMLN party ahead in many preliminary polls and expected to increased its presence in the Legislative Assembly and win municipal governments in El Salvador's largest cities.
		Buses bringing foreigners into El Salvador were observed crossing both the Guatemalan and Honduran borders, and reports have surfaced in San Salvador, Sonsonante, and La Union of foreigners from neighboring countries participating in the voting process.
		This morning in El Salvador voting began to elect all 84 national legislative deputies and mayors for El Salvador’s 262 municipalities.
	nyc.indymedia.org /en/2006/03/66324.html (1101 words)

	El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Violence continues to plague El Salvador ’s post-conflict society, which is characterized by high crime and citizen insecurity.
		The roots of El Salvador’s rural crisis lie in inequitable land distribution that pre-dates the civil war.
		Fourteen families dominated the wealth and land of the country, while 65 percent of the population was landless in the early 1980s.
	www.wola.org /central_america/salvador/salvador_countrypage.htm (744 words)

	SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: El Salvador elections and events: 1981-1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Karl 1986: "The decision to hold elections in El Salvador in 1982 during a civil war was rooted primarily in a foreign policy crisis in the United States and only secondarily in events taking place within El Salvador.
		Following the classic model of ‘demonstration’ elections, the 1982 contests were imposed by the U.S. in order to improve the international image of the ruling Salvadoran junta as well as to avoid strong pressures for a negotiated settlement between domestic power contenders" (page 13).
		Rosenberg 1982: The elections in March 1982 are "for a constituent assembly, which would designate a provisional president of the country (to replace the junta), write a new constitution to replace the 1966 Constitution, and prepare the country for presidential elections" (page 412).
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/elsal/1981-1983.html (2223 words)

	El Salvador - Political Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are presidential elections in El Salvador this month on the 21st and there are only 6 parties participating of which only one is a new party.
		In "Diario El Mundo" (1), 9 May 2006, Edgardo Rivera reports that Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña (FPS) is about to become the sixth political party registered with the Electoral Supreme Court for the general elections of 2009.
		Diario El Mundo, 11 May 2006, has an article dedicated to the new political party FPS, giving an explicit description of the party symbols as: "As a symbol the party uses an Indian, who represents the native peoples, and the party flag is vertically divided blue and white.".
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/sv}.html (1383 words)

	Presbyterians Part of International Team Overseeing Presidential Elections in El Salvador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Francisco Flores, a 39-year-old former philosophy professor and the new standard bearer of El Salvador’s principal right-wing party, was declared the election winner, although his victory was diminished somewhat by low turnout.
		The election -- El Salvador’s second presidential ballot since the country’s 12-year civil war ended in 1992 -- came at a time when Central America’s smallest nation is beset by rampant crime, grinding poverty and a panoply of other social problems.
		Election officials reported that, with more than 95 percent of the ballots counted, Flores, of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), had received 52 percent of the vote, while his main challenger, Facundo Guardado, 44, a former guerrilla commander and the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), received 29 percent.
	www.pcusa.org /pcnews/oldnews/1999/99103.htm (1095 words)

	EL SALVADOR: parliamentary elections Asamblea legislativa, 2003
		Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		On 16 March 2003, all 84 seats in the Parliament and 262 mayoral seats nationwide were contested in the fifth election since a ceasefire ended a 12-year civil war in 1992.
		In the run-up to the election, at least five persons died in campaign-related violence.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2099_03.htm (409 words)

	El Salvador's irrelevant elections. - By Arthur Allen - Slate Magazine
		SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador—On the eve of El Salvador's legislative and mayoral elections, Mayor Will Salgado was waiting on the steps of our hotel when we got into town so he could denounce his enemies for fraud.
		The result, for a visitor who last set foot in El Salvador in 1986, is a confusing set of contrasts.
		The race for mayor of San Salvador, a sprawling metropolis of 1.7 million, was still a tossup as of Tuesday between Arena laboratory technician Rodrigo Samayoa and the FMLN's Violeta Menjivar, a pediatrician.
	www.slate.com /id/2137960 (1671 words)

	10 O'Clock News \| [Mel King on El Salvador elections]
		Putnam says that El Salvadorean citizens were confused about how and where to vote; that chaos reigned at many polling places; that voting is mandatory.
		King says that he has been reluctant to talk about the elections in El Salvador; that the election was prematurely held; that many political parties were not ready.
		King says that the US Government and the El Salvadorean government are exploiting a fear of communism among the people; that this fear of communism diverts attention from issues of poverty and justice.
	main.wgbh.org /ton/programs/2658_02.html (410 words)

	Leftist Party Leads in El Salvador Elections
		Early returns from El Salvador's congressional elections give a narrow lead to a leftist party of former rebels.
		The FMLN was a guerrilla group during El Salvador's civil war, and became a political party under a 1992 peace deal.
		El Salvadorans also voted for mayors in 262 races, including in the capital, San Salvador.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-03-13-voa30.cfm (189 words)

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