FMLN obtiene 51,65% en presidenciales salvadoreñas

Funes ejerció su voto acompañado de su esposa, Wanda Pignato, en la escuela Walter Thilo Deinninger, del municipio de Antiguo Cuscatlán (centro) en una jornada con masiva asistencia de votantes, mostrándose confiado en todo momento de que los salvadoreños le darían la victoria.

De mantenerse la tendencia de los primeros resultados Mauricio Funes sería el nuevo presidente de El Salvador.

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El candidato por el Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (FMLN,) Mauricio Funes, obtuvo 51,65 por ciento de los votos según el primer boletín del Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) salvadoreño que ha escrutado 65,6 por ciento de los sufragios.
Con un total de 3 mil 174 actas escrutadas de 9 mil 543, el partido FMLN obtuvo 448 mil 554 votos, lo que le da una victoria parcial en este primer boletín emitido por el ente electoral.
Por su parte, el candidato del partido oficial ARENA, Rodrigo Ávila, obtuvo hasta los momentos 426 mil 108 votos, para un total de 48,35 por ciento con 874 mil 662 votos válidos totales y 779 sufragios nulos
Faltan por contabilizar 6.369 actas, que equivalen al 66,73 por ciento del total.
De mantenerse esta tendencia, Funes se convertiría en el nuevo presidente de El Salvador, tras veinte año del gobierno de Arenas y primer presidente perteciente al partido FMLN
El candidato emitió su voto este domingo a las 17.00 (GMT), donde aseguró que el pueblo "se ha volcado a apoyar el cambio" y confió en que los salvadoreños le darían la victoria.Funes ejerció su voto acompañado de su esposa, Wanda Pignato, en la escuela Walter Thilo Deinninger, del municipio de Antiguo Cuscatlán (centro) en una jornada con masiva asistencia de votantes, lo cual a su juicio demuestra que los salvadoreños "están confiando en los instrumentos de la democracia".El proceso concluyó a las 17:00 horas locales (23:00 GMT), después de una jornada que se desarrolló con tranquilidad hasta el cierre de urnas, y que dio una histórica victoria al FMLN, que desaloja al partido ARENA del poder que ostenta desde hace 20 años.El presidente del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, Walter Araujo, informó que fue un proceso electoral transparente, pacífico y masivo, opinión con la que coincidieron más de 4 mil observadores internacionales.Araujo indicó durante una cadena nacional de radio y televisión que "este día el TSE quiere agradecer a todos y cada uno de los salvadoreños que de diferentes puestos en este proceso electoral han servido a la democracia del país".Hacia el mediodía, había sugrafado 36,7 por ciento de los 4,3 millones de salvadoreños con derecho a voto, según un recuento publicado por medios salvadoreños.Durante el sábado y la madrugada del domingo, los defensores del voto del FMLN se unieron para evitar un posible fraude y se aglomeraron en distintas instituciones del Estado, donde presuntamente se encontraban concentrados cientos de extranjeros que vendrían a votar. Militantes del Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) empezaron a salir a las calles para celebrar los resultados que daban ventaja al candidato de esta formación, Mauricio Funes, en la elección presidencial de este domingo.

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In El Salvador, Cautious Optimism On What a Progressive Win Would Mean for U.S. Relations

Bush-era policies like CAFTA and the Iraq War have turned Salvadorans against the U.S. and its allies in the ARENA government.

By Roberto Lovato, New America Media

AlterNet

SAN SALVADOR -- El Salvador’s election on March 15 is an occasion for Salvadorans to consider future relations with the United States and the new Obama Administration. How the new president and his advisers respond to these elections could be an early measure of U.S.-Latin American relations. And it may also be an opportunity for Obama to begin fulfilling his campaign promise to “lead the hemisphere into the 21st Century.” As much as he appreciates the change of U.S. administrations, philosophy student Carlos Ramirez, 24, who was sitting beneath a tree near the central plaza of his school, the University of El Salvador in San Salvador, expressed concern that the administration has only made a brief statement of neutrality on the widely-watched elections here. Ramirez and others, including more than 33 U.S. congressmembers who sent Obama a dear-colleague letter about the Salvadoran elections, fear a repeat of 2004. Then, Bush Administration officials intervened in the Salvadoran elections, suggesting that a victory by the opposition party would endanger the legal status of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States and would prohibit remittances they send home. “I want Obama to understand that there are some students here -- a minority, I would say -- who still have the ‘80’s attitude of permanent confrontation with the United States that we see in campus protests against the Iraq war, CAFTA [Central American Free Trade Agreement] and other policies,” said Ramirez. “But most of us are open to re-thinking the relationship with the United States. We all recognize that all of us, including the United States, are in a profound crisis and extremely interdependent, as you can see in issues like immigration, trade and security. We’re open and now it’s up to Obama to define his position, and the elections are a good place to start.”Ramirez’ open-but-cautious attitude is the product of both political maturity and the Bush era policies toward Latin America that bred alienation from the United States. Viewed from this perspective, Sunday's elections have significance beyond the tiny country of 7 million. How the Obama Administration deals with El Salvador’s hotly contested elections and their aftermath will communicate much about what this country and Latin America can expect from him. The policies of post-World War II presidents in the United States, both Republican and Democratic, make many Salvadorans wary of Obama, even though they give him high popularity ratings, says Edgardo Herrera, an international relations expert at the university.“If it is truly committed to improving relations with El Salvador and the rest of Latin America, the Obama Administration should remember what we say about justice here,” said Herrera. “Justice is like a snake. It only bites the barefoot poor, not the rich who have shoes.” He thinks the United States is not in sync with ideas about justice on the Salvadoran street. He cites an annual opinion poll conducted by Central American University since 2003. “Every year Salvadorans are telling the United States they do not like its policies, including the Iraq war, the CAFTA and the dollarization of the country’s currency,” Herrera said. “Rejection of these policies has turned the Salvadoran electorate against the ARENA government-and the United States.”For Robert White, former ambassador to El Salvador in the Carter Administration and President of the Center for International Policy, the challenge of U.S.-El Salvador policy before and after Sunday’s elections is to foster autonomy and self-determination. “Although the country may be small and its economy heavily dependent on remittances from the United States," White said, "it is still important for that country to demonstrate its policy independence. Many questions have been raised by some of the Salvadoran government’s past actions.”White, who is in El Salvador as an elections observer, recalled how the Bush Administration influenced El Salvador’s “extraordinary rapid recognition of the 2002 coup regime in Venezuela, which I believe lasted less than 48 hours.” The leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is leading the right-wing ARENA party, which dominated politics for 20 years. Should the FMLN win, White said the U.S. should “treat it as a normal event in a democracy.”Ramirez agreed. “The best thing Obama can do is to engage us in this time of transition and expectation,” he said. “If he were to visit us, he would see immediately that what he needs to do is simply help us reconstruct the campus and the country as the Uniteds States did in Europe and Japan after World War II.”
Go here for Roberto Lovato's illustrated dispatches from El Salvador.