Preliminary results indicate El Salvador's former Marxist guerrilla
movement, the FMLN, has won Sunday's parliamentary elections. The
leftist party has, however, failed to gain an absolute majority and
will have to form a coalition.
President Elias Antonio Saca's conservative ARENA party, which has
been in power for 20 years in El Salvador, came second in the poll.
Despite its good overall performance, the FMLN lost the post of mayor
in the capital, San Salvador.
Sunday's parliamentary elections are being seen as indicating how
March's presidential election will go. Opinion polls give the FMLN
candidate for president, Mauricio Funes, a clear lead over his
right-wing rival, Rodrigo Avila.
As a guerrilla movement, the FMLN was involved in a civil war with El
Salvador's government from 1980 to 1992. An estimated 75,000 people
were killed in the conflict.
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