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...more a mandate for peace and democracy than for particular politicians or parties. Nevertheless, the politicians had to divide the power and put together a functioning government. With 40% of the vote, Duarte's party seemed assured of a 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...
...rightists interrupted their talks for a luncheon meeting with U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton, who had invited candidates and representatives from the six contending parties to discuss the elections over paella and fruit custard. Hinton urged the various parties to work together for a moderate government of national unity. But when the five rightist parties huddled again after lunch, they put the finishing touches on their call for a program with no mention of Duarte's 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...
...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 Another wavering group, the Democratic Action Party, meanwhile, was said to have broken with ARENA and to have withdrawn its two deputies from the rightist coalition...
...week's end the potential rightist bloc was beginning to give way in the face of Washington's blunt warnings. Hinting that certain Christian Democrats might be acceptable as future leaders, ARENA and the P.C.N. finally agreed to meet with Duarte's party in talks about the composition of the new government. As the largest single bloc in the assembly, the Christian Democrats still seemed likely to emerge as a major powerbroker. But the rightists insisted that they would not accept Duarte himself in the new national leadership, a decision that both he and his U.S. backers...