Word: aubuisson
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...able to control the assembly by forming a coalition with one or two of the rightist parties. But to the consternation of Duarte and his U.S. supporters, the rightists suddenly began to form their own ruling coalition under the leadership of cashiered National Guard Officer Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a fanatical anti-Communist who has been linked by his enemies with the country's right-wing death squads...
...leading role in the new assembly. But the five rightist parties, who collectively polled 60%, had other plans. Their leaders met the morning after the election at the home of Salvadoran Popular Party Leader Francisco Quinonez to begin talks on forming their own coalition. Led by D'Aubuisson's ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), with its 29% of the vote and 19 assembly seats, the five parties were held together mainly by personal animosity to Duarte. "The fact is," explained one foreign diplomat, "Duarte represents change in a society that resisted change for 50 years and was entirely...
...indiscriminate human rights abuses. Any new coalition, the U.S. made clear, must include a "prominent role" for the Christian Democrats, who are most closely tied to the reforms. The U.S. also hammered home the message that a leading role for the notorious D'Aubuisson would be unacceptable to Congress...
...pivotal group in the battle for the assembly was the National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.), whose 14 seats could tip the majority to either D'Aubuisson's ARENA or Duarte's Christian Democrats. The party of the military governments that ruled the country before the 1979 coup, the loosely organized P.C.N. seems to be divided into two main factions: a rightist wing, led by Secretary-General Raul Molina Martinez, and a moderate wing, led by ex-Army Colonel Roberto Escobar Garcia, whom one foreign diplomat calls "the best man they...
...P.C.N. at first lined up with D'Aubuisson's coalition. But the Christian Democrats hoped to win over some moderate deputies. One problem, said a foreign diplomat, is that both Molina and Escobar Garcia were "talking to different people and saying different things. [The P.C.N.] is not being led by any one person. Trying to understand them is like tying up with a lot of horses. The party is wavering." Another wavering group, the Democratic Action Party, meanwhile, was said to have broken with ARENA and to have withdrawn its two deputies from the rightist coalition...