Alianza Republicana Nacionalista

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Alianza Republicana Nacionalista
Alianza Republicana Nacionalista.svg
Party leader Mauricio Interiano
founding September 30, 1981
Headquarters San Salvador
Alignment Conservatism , nationalism , neoliberalism
Colours) blue, white and red
Parliament seats
37/84
International connections International Democratic Union
Website arena.com.sv

The Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Nationalist Republican Alliance), ARENA for short , is a right-wing conservative party in El Salvador .

history

The ARENA was born on 30th September 1981 by former CIA - agents and Major of the Salvadoran Army Roberto D'Aubuisson founded, whose involvement in the activities of death squads and especially in the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero was common knowledge.

The ARENA chose Izalco as the founding site , where, according to their statement , “the country was saved from communism” by the “ Matanza ” in 1932, which killed over a quarter of the population in Izalco and around 30,000 people nationwide. Since then, she has traditionally started her national election campaign in Izalco with her party anthem, which says “where the reds will end” (donde los rojos terminarán) . From 1981 to 2009 the ARENA in Izalco controlled local politics until it lost the 2009 local elections to the FMLN .

The death squads fell victim to well over 30,000 people during the Salvadoran Civil War 1980–1991 , who were abducted, tortured and murdered with the tolerance and support of the USA . The fatal assassination attempt on Archbishop Romero in 1980 and the rape and subsequent murder of four American nuns and a lay missionary in 1989 attracted particular attention .

The ARENA successively provided the Presidents Alfredo Cristiani Burkard , Armando Calderón Sol , Francisco Flores Pérez and Antonio Saca .

elections

In the parliamentary elections on March 16, 2003, the party received 32.0% of the vote and thus 27 out of 84 seats. In the presidential elections on March 21, 2004, the candidate of the ARENA, Tony Saca , won against the candidate of the FMLN , Schafik Handal , with 58% of the vote and was sworn in as president on June 1, 2004. Unauthorized support for the party before the presidential elections in 2009 by the Hanns Seidel Foundation was not confirmed by the German government .

There were parliamentary elections in January 2009, which were monitored by 2,000 international observers. The ARENA was one of the dominant forces alongside the FMLN in the election campaign. However, the FMLN won most of the seats in the National Assembly.

The chairman of the ARENA and presidential candidate for the 2009 election is former police chief and vice minister for security Rodrigo Ávila . Ávila advocates a strict security policy, wants to maintain the previous economic policy (market economy with only very little state influence outside the security sector) and clearly rejects the planned economic and social programs of the FLMN opponent Mauricio Funes . However, Ávila was narrowly defeated by the moderate Funes who, according to preliminary results, won 51% of the vote. This is the first time in 20 years that the ARENA has not provided the President of El Salvador. Ávila announced a tough opposition course against the FLMN.

For the 2014 presidential election, Norman Quijano , the mayor of San Salvador , ran as the ARENA's candidate, who received 39 percent of the vote. His rival candidate Salvador Sánchez Cerén from the FMLN received 49 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Peter Peetz: El Salvador - recent history and present from the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on May 24, 2008
  3. ^ Roberto Lovato: March 12, 2009: Izalco, El Salvador and the Way Beyond the Silence. New America Media, News analysis ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.newamericamedia.org
  4. ^ Taz: Seidel-Stiftung kungelt mit Ultras , accessed on November 14, 2012; Printed matter 16/8588: The Hanns Seidel Foundation and the election campaign in El Salvador (PDF; 67 kB) of April 3, 2008.
  5. ↑ Der Standard: Ex-Guerrilla Against Ultra-Right , accessed on January 18, 2009.
  6. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/el.salvador.election/index.html
  7. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/einewelt/934530/
  8. ^ NZZ : El Salvador receives a left-wing president for the first time on March 16, 2009
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  10. ↑ Tjerk Brühwiller, São Paulo: Ex-guerrilla favorite for the runoff. In: nzz.ch. February 3, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .