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CENTRAL AMERICA
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02
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FMNL
Readies
for
Upcoming
Elections
SAN
SALVADOR
- El
Salvador's
Farabundo
Marti
National
Liberation
Front
announced
its
decision
to
successfully
face the
upcoming
elections
and
ensure
that the
current
process
of
change
continues.
The
party
plans to
run in
the
2012,
2014 and
2015
elections,
general
coordinator
Medardo
Gonzalez
said.
The
announcement
was made
as the
FMLN
held its
26th
national
convention
on
Sunday,
ending
with an
internal
election
aimed at
"strengthening
the
party's
determination
to work
for
democracy,"
according
to
Salvadoran
Vice
President
alvador
Sánchez
Ceren, a
historic
leader
of the
party.
The FMLN
must
work
toward a
truly
democratic
society,
where
there is
no
exclusion
or
injustice,
and
poverty
is
eliminated,
Ceren
emphasized.
The
congress
elected
the
part's
57-member
National
Council
and
19-member
Political
Committee,
and
reaffirmed
founding
member
Medardo
Gonzalez
as
general
coordinator.
Violeta
Menjivar,
former
mayor of
the
capital
and
deputy
minister
of
health,
was
elected
assistant
coordinator.
The
newly-elected
party
officers
will
take
their
posts on
Dec. 12,
for
five-year
terms.
The FMLN
was
founded
on its
October
10,
1980, by
the five
organizations
fighting
the
military
dictatorship,
and
following
the 1992
peace
agreement,
it
became a
legal
political
party.
Salvadoran
President
Mauricio
Funes,
the
FMLN's
candidate,
was
elected
on March
15,
2009.
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