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...working session, the capital was abuzz with rumors that the Christian Democrats and 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...
...junta promised free presidential elections on schedule in 1962, freed political prisoners, dissolved Congress and promised to elect a new one soon. To answer the inevitable question, the junta chose as its spokesman Lawyer Fortin Magana. It "definitely will not be of the Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...