New York Times: El Salvador: Officials Confirm Ex-Guerrilla’s Victory
El Salvador’s electoral tribunal on Thursday confirmed that Salvador Sánchez Cerén, a former guerrilla commander during the country’s civil war, emerged from Sunday’s presidential election with the most votes, by a margin of 6,364. But his opponent’s party, the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, or Arena, said it would not accept the results without a manual recount.
The party said it submitted evidence of fraud to the attorney general’s office.
International election monitors and Attorney General Luis Martínez González have said there was no sign of wrongdoing during the election.
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