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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
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
![[El Salvador - Bloque Popular Revolucionario]](../images/s/sv}bpr.gif)
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
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
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
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)
