EL SALVADOR: A former Marxist guerrilla leader, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, says he will patiently wait for final results and that he is confident he will win El Salvador's presidency

Record ID: 871414

  • Title: EL SALVADOR: A former Marxist guerrilla leader, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, says he will patiently wait for final results and that he is confident he will win El Salvador's presidency
  • Date: 10th March 2014
  • Summary: SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR (MARCH 10, 2014) (REUTERS) **CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** FMLN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SALVADOR SANCHEZ CEREN AND VICE PRESIDENT CANDIDATE OSCAR ORTIZ ARRIVING AT NEWS CONFERENCE MEDIA DURING NEWS CONFERENCE SANCHEZ CEREN DURING NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) FMLN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SALVADOR SANCHEZ CEREN SAYING: "It corresponds to
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  • Story Text: El Salvador's presidential election results favouring former Marxist guerrilla leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren are irreversible, the head of the country's electoral tribunal said on Monday (March 10).
    Sanchez Ceren of the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which as a rebel group fought a string of U.S.-backed governments in the 1980-92 civil war, won 50.11 percent support in Sunday's election, preliminary results showed.
    The electoral tribunal said definitive results would be ready in three or four days.
    Sanchez Ceren said he would patiently wait for final results.

    "It corresponds to the electoral tribunal to provide the final data and to proclaim the president and vice president. We will wait, even though we are already happy, joyful, committed to the country, because we don't doubt they will confirm, confirm the results of the preliminary count," Sanchez Ceren said.
    He also called on the opposition to work together on a national agenda, if the preliminary results are confirmed.

    "We invite the ARENA party, their leaders, the COENA (ARENA's executive body) so that when the elections are declared (official results released), we start working together, to build an agenda for the nation."
    Challenger Norman Quijano, the 67-year-old former mayor of the country's capital San Salvador and candidate of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) party, received 49.89 percent support. He claimed there was election fraud and insisted he was the real winner.
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