Salvadoreans vote in general elections - Gayo Lues

Filed In: American News | Posted by admin | on March 12th, 2012 |

A woman casts her vote at a polling station in the town of Panchimalco to the south of El Salvador’s capital San Salvador as legislative elections are being held across the country on March 11, 2012.

Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:10PM

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Salvadoreans have begun voting in general elections that are believed to be a major test for the country’s first leftist government since the end of civil war in 1992.

Polling stations across El Salvador opened at 07:00 am local time (13:00 GMT) on Sunday and voting is expected to continue until 05:00 pm (23:00 GMT).

The South American country has a multi-party system, in which the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) dominate the Legislative Assembly with respectively 32 and 35 seats.

Both the country’s president and vice president are members of the FMLN. However, recent opinion polls suggest that ARENA has gained ground.

El Salvador experienced the civil war between 1980 and 1992.

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source: Presstv.ir – American News

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