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Article: EL SALVADOR: CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP PUT BUSINESS ELITES AT HELM OF GOVERNING ARENA PARTY.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- October 18, 2001
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El Salvador's governing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) has installed a new executive council (Consejo Ejecutivo Nacional, COENA) dominated by business leaders. The new council is supposed to unify and modernize the party in preparation for elections in 2003 and 2004, but some party factions, including influential party founders (fundadores), are not satisfied with the changes.
The shake-up in leadership follows a period of decline during which ARENA lost ground in the Legislative Assembly. The opposition Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) went from 14 seats in 1994 to 31 in 2000. ARENA has only 29 seats in the 84-seat unicameral body ...
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