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President-elect Alfredo Cristiani blamed leftist guerrillas for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June 1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day, however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with the F.M.L.N...
FMLN won about 4 percent of the votes in the March election, while the right-wing party, led by Alfredo Christiani, won more than 50 percent. Garcia said that the election was simply a tool of "low-intensity warfare" and did not represent the eligible electorate...
...Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, left all rivals for the country's presidency far behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
...Alfredo Griffin...
Presidential candidate Alfredo Cristiani, a wealthy coffee grower, told reporters that his party's unofficial count showed him leading with 54 percent of Sunday's vote with about 75 percent of the ballots counted...