The Majority Chose Change, El Salvador Candidate
San Salvador - Salvadorian presidential candidate Mauricio Funes considered Sunday's municipal legislative elections as successful, because the Farabundo Marti Front is today the country's first political force.
"We have increased our votes along the nation, in departments and locally, and in the legislative authority as well. If we maintain that same situation for the elections on March 15, there is no doubt we will win the presidency," he said.
In an interview Funes explained that the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) increased its number of parliament members from 32 to 37, while Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) remains with 34 and could lose two others.
"What does that mean? That we increased the vote in relation to the year 2006 and this is giving us greater presence in the Legislative Assembly," he explained.
In reference to municipal elections, of 262 councils at stake, the left increased the number of mayoralties from 58 to over 80 and has recovered control of administrative centers that had been rightwing bastions up to now, with some of them being strategic, as La Union.
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/january/21/reg02.htm~~~~~~~~~Thanks for the El Salvador information. It's really time the American people started keeping track of real events with real people so very close to home, over real problems those real people are trying to solve in their own real countries. Up 'til now, they've also had to try to get the change they need so desperately while fighting against the covert war perpetrated secretly upon them by certain dirty US politicians who DON'T have their interests at heart. No way. It has been dirty US politicians' job to help the multinationals exploit, cheat, and brutalize these people if they put up any resistance whatsoever to the rape and plunder of their resources, including virtual slave labor of their huge majorities of poor people.
Hope the people of El Salvador will be far, far closer to their goals after the March election.