Campaign Update Part 4: Ex-Military Officers Field Long-Shot Candidates
Pollsters and analysts have limited their focus to the candidacies put forward by the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, the right-wing UNIDAD coalition and right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party as electorally viable, relevant choices for the 2014 presidency in El Salvador. Nevertheless, two other candidates will also be on the ballot on February 2nd, both from parties representing former military officials. The Salvadoran Patriot Fraternity (FPS) is fielding lawyer and former military man Óscar Lemus, while the Salvadoran Progressive Party (PSP) is backing retired lieutenant colonel René Rodriguez Hurtado, implicated in the 1989 murder of French nurse Madeleine Lagadec. In the meantime, official candidate inscription remains open until October 4nd, leaving just over two months for new candidates to announce their bids.
"I am a CISPES supporter because continuing to fight for social justice and a more people-centered country means continuing the dream and sacrifice of thousands of my fellow Salvadorans who died for that vision.” - Padre Carlos, New York City
