SAN SALVADOR : Ex-Rebels in the House
The newly elected Salvadoran National Assembly, including for the first time former leftist guerrillas who once fought to bring down the government, takes office Sunday. The assembly will be dominated by the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance, or Arena, a right-wing party that holds 39 of 84 seats.
Twenty-one deputies come from the former guerrilla army, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which disarmed itself as part of U.N.-brokered peace accords that ended the brutal civil war two years ago.
The deputies were elected March 20, while a runoff election last Sunday gave the presidency to Arena’s Armando Calderon Sol.
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