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The mayor, Salvador Ruano, came to power in Ilopango last May, after a narrow win for the rightwing National Republican Alliance, known by the acronym Arena in Spanish, in a FMLN stronghold – with the party punished for years of infighting by a record low turnout.
His father was a FMLN bodyguard and logistics officer, and his mother recruited people and supplies for the insurgents.
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The two men led an unsuccessful coup in 1992.In an election with a low turnout in El Salvador, the FMLN, a party formed by former leftist guerrillas, displaced the ruling ARENA as the largest party in Congress, but without winning an overall majority.
This summer, the leftwing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a long-time supporter of a bill to this effect, reintroduced it in the legislative assembly just months after winning a narrow victory in the 2014 national elections.
But she was roundly defeated by Carlos Rivas Zamora, a little-known FMLN lawyer.
Mauricio Funes, an ex-journalist, ended two decades of conservative rule in El Salvador, winning the presidency for the FMLN, a party formed by ex-guerrillas.
The war ended with a peace treaty in 1992, and the FMLN became a political party.
There is precedent here for this kind of tactic - whether it was Sinn Fein / IRA being brought into a power sharing agreement in Northern Ireland, or the FMLN negotiating a truce in El Salvador's Civil War, and transforming itself from a bunch of guerrillas into a political party (which recently won the nation's elections).
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