Summary
In Sunday's elections, El Salvador's former Marxist rebels who have become a political party waged their strongest challenge for the presidency in two decades, threatening to unseat the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance for the first time since the end of the country's civil war.
Mauricio Funes, candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), had received 51.1 percent of the vote, while Rodrigo Avila had 48.9 percent, with about 85 percent of returns counted late Sunday night, election officials said.See the full content of this document
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Salvadoran Ex-Rebels Poised to Win at Polls
The campaign was wrought with bitter accusations by both candidates and their parties. Mr. ...
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