El Salvador s long-dominant parties in crisis after drubbing
by Marcos Aleman, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 7, 2021 9:09 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 7, 2021 at 9:14 am EDT
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Saúl Meléndez, a former fighter during El Salvador’s civil war, was for years a loyal member of the leftist political party formed by his fellow ex-guerrillas after the war.
But Meléndez has now won his first elected office not with them, but as a member of President Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party.
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front the party Meléndez left in 2015 and that expelled Bukele in 2017 suffered a drubbing in February’s national elections. Some question whether with its four remaining federal legislators, down from 23 before the election, the FMLN can even survive.
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