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...because of its progressive land and banking reforms. But a right-wing coalition headed by ARENA and the P.C.N. won control of 34 of the assembly's 60 seats and boldly moved to seize power. It gave the assembly presidency to ARENA Leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a former army major with alleged links to the country's notorious death squads, and then sought to put one of its own men at the head of the new provisional government...
...political horse trading that followed the elections, the Christian Democrats were outflanked by a rightist coalition that included D'Aubuisson's ARENA and the National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.). Controlling at least 34 of the assembly's 60 seats, the alliance was in a position to freeze out Duarte's party. But the U.S. mounted a strong lobbying effort to ensure the Christian Democrats at least a share of power. The Reagan Administration's principal argument was that if the moderates were left out of the government, the U.S. Congress would not support continued military...
...part of the P.C.N. had agreed to name Magaña provisional President. The right, it was assumed, would also agree to give the Christian Democrats some role in the assembly leadership. But when headlines proclaiming Magana's imminent election appeared in the afternoon paper, D'Aubuisson reportedly became furious and rearranged the list of candidates for the nine-man assembly directorate to exclude all Christian Democrats. When the vote took place, D'Aubuisson and his fellow rightists easily swept all the assembly posts. Said ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli defiantly: "We did this today to show...
...elected provisional President. In any event, the choice could have more symbolic than real meaning. The provisional President may have little power to resist the assembly, which is expected to have the authority to approve all legislation as well as the new constitution. By controlling the assembly, D'Aubuisson might in effect end up running the country...
...Aubuisson's success does not bode well for the improvement of human rights in El Salvador. He has often been accused of being involved with rightist death squads, and he campaigned on a promise to eradicate the leftists. Though he has lately tried to moderate his image, some Salvadorans seem to be taking his tough talk at face value. Workers who regularly count the bodies dumped along the roadsides report that political murders have increased some 20% since the elections. And in the tiny mud-hut hamlet of Barrios last week, survivors of an alleged Sunday-morning massacre told...