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There are elections in El Salvador this sunday, and on <upd.tse.gob.sv> you can see all the flags of the 11 political parties that are participating.
Fred Drews, 14 March 2003

There are presidential elections in El Salvador this month on the 21st and there are only 6 parties participating of which only one is a new party. The parties are:
- PCN - Partido de Conciliacion Nacional
- PDC - Partido Democrata Cristiano
- FMLN - Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
- ARENA - Partido Alianza Republicana Nacionalicta
- PNL - Partido Nacional Liberal (new!)
- CDU - Centro Democratico Unido
Fred Drews, 3 March 2004


ARENA - Partido Alianza Republicana Nacionalicta


by Ivan Sache, 16 March 2003

Based on image from <upd.tse.gob.sv>. This party took part in 2003 elections.
Fred Drews, 14 March 2003


Bloque Popular Revolucionario

[El Salvador - Bloque Popular Revolucionario]
by Randy Young, 21 January 1999

On a red field, a red star centered within a white triangle that's based on the hoist. I'm assuming from the name of the party and the red star that they have some socialist or communist connection.
Source: William Crampton, "The Complete Guide to Flags," printed in 1989.
Randy Young, 21 January 1999


CDU - Centro Democratico Unido


by Ivan Sache, 16 March 2003

Based on image from <upd.tse.gob.sv>. This party took part in 2003 elections.
Fred Drews, 14 March 2003


FDR - Frente Democrático Revolutionario


by Ivan Sache, 17 June 2005

The political party "Frente Democrático Revolutionario" (FDR) has been formed by 117 dissidents from "Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional" (FMLN), including four MPs and their deputies. On 15 June 2005, the leaders of the new party have registered their statutes with the Election Supreme Court ("Tribunal Supremo Electoral"). The provisory general coordinator of FDR is Julio Hernández. The deputy coordinator is Francisco Jovel, member of the general command of FMLN during the civil war. The new party has decided not to participate to the next general and municipal elections (2006), but will have a candidate for the next presidential election (2009). The flag of FDR is red with the acronym of the party in yellow letters.
Sources: Diario El Mundo - 15 June 2005, La Prensa Gráfica - 16 June 2005.
Reconstituted image (no image of the real flag seen yet).
Ivan Sache, 17 June 2005


FMLN - Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional


by Ivan Sache, 16 March 2003

Image of the flag at <www.netcomsa.com/fmln>.
Dov Gutterman, 10 March 1999

Based on image from <upd.tse.gob.sv>. This party took part in 2003 elections.
Fred Drews, 14 March 2003

Brief description: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
Mothertongue Name: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).
Base of Operation: El Salvador.
Founding Philosophy: Nicaragua was plagued by several terrorist organizations in the 1970s and 1980s. Terrorists fought for both rightist and leftist ideologies. In the late 1970s, Cuba's Fidel Castro offered financial aid to a number of Communist and leftist insurgent groups in El Salvador. As a precondition to receiving Cuban aid, the leftist groups would first have to centralize their military command. On the 17th of December 1979, in period of national crisis, the three dominant Marxist organizations (FPL, RN and PCS) in El Salvador formed the Coordinadora Político-Militar (in order to fulfill Castro's requirement). The CPM's first manifesto was released on 10th of January 1980, and the day afterwards the Coordinadora Revolucionaria de Masas was formed as a union of revolutionary mass organizations. CRM later merged with the Frente Democrático Salvadoreño to form the Frente Democrático Revolucionario.
On May 22nd, 1980, the Dirección Revolucionaria Unificada was created by the FPL, RN, EPL and PCS. DRU consisted of three Political Commission members from each of these four organizations. The DRU manifesto declared, "There will be only one leadership, only one military plan and only one command, only one political line."
On the 10th of October 1980 the four organizations formed the Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (FMLN). In December of the same year, the Salvadoran branch of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos broke away from its central organization and affiliated itself to FMLN. Thus the following organizations composed FMLN (listed in the order of size at the time of the peace accords in 1992):  
- Fuerzas Popular de Liberación "Farabundo Martí" (FPL)
- Partido Comunista de El Salvador, armed wing Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación (PCS)
- Partido de la Revolución Salvadoreña, armed wing Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP)
- Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional (RN)