The World - News from Feb. 8, 1985
El Salvador’s Supreme Court threw out a version of the electoral law signed by President Jose Napolean Duarte and upheld one favored by his conservative opposition. The court decision means that rightist parties can legally form coalitions to oppose Duarte’s moderate Christian Democrats in legislative and municipal elections March 31. Duarte had signed an Assembly-approved electoral law in December but had vetoed provisions to allow opposition coalitions.
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