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Weekly Report - 24 May 2018 (WR-18-20)

El SALVADOR: Another former president to face trial

El Salvador’s former president Tony Saca (2004-2009) of the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) has become the latest former head of state (and second from Arena), to face legal action for money-laundering and corruption. If convicted, Saca would become the country’s first former president to face jail time for corruption. The renewed focus on his alleged misdemeanours is unlikely to do Arena much good as the country gears up for next year’s presidential contest. Yet the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, which suffered a disastrous defeat in legislative and municipal elections in March [WR-18-10], is hardly in a position to capitalise on Arena’s discomfort.

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