El
Salvador President Enjoys Nearly 90%
Approval
SAN SALVADOR - A total of 87.9 percent of
Salvadorians said they were satisfied with
the performance of their president Mauricio
Funes, according to a survey published on
Wednesday.
According to news reaching here, polling
firm JBS Opinion Publica found that 54.2
percent of Salvadorians described Funes'
performance as "good," 17.7 percent said it
had been "very good" and 16 percent rated
him as "excellent."
A total of 1,206 people were consulted in
the survey, which was commissioned by
Salvadorian daily El Diaro de Hoy between
Dec. 26 and Dec. 30.
More than 37 percent of those polled said
Funes, the nation's first left-wing
president who took office on June 1, 2009,
was fulfilling his campaign promises and a
further 20.6 percent said he was changing
the nation for the better.
Funes has vowed to build houses for the poor
and fight crime in the country, which has
the highest murder rate in Latin America.
Seventy-Five percent of respondents said
that Funes was wise in distancing himself
with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front (FMLN), the party that brought him to
power.
The FMLN was a guerrilla movement during the
nation's 1980 to 1992 civil war. Funes was
the first FMLN candidate who had not been a
guerrilla leader during the war.
He said he would commit to the welfare of
all the nation's citizens, not only for the
party loyalists.
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