Salvador Sánchez Cerén

Salvador Sánchez Cerén (2017)

Salvador Sánchez Cerén (born June 18, 1944 in Quezaltepeque , La Libertad Department ) alias Comandante Leonel González is a Salvadoran politician ( FMLN ). He was president of his country from June 1, 2014 to June 1, 2019 .

Life

His family worked in agriculture. He studied at the Escuela Normal de San Salvador teacher for elementary school and became a teacher. In the late 1960s he was a founding member of the Salvadoran Teachers Association Asociación Nacional de Educadores Salvadoreños (ANDES 21 DE JUNIO). In 1970 he took part in the organization of the Fuerzas Popular de Liberación "Farabundo Martí" (FPL), the first left-wing organization in El Salvador that wanted to solve the social conflict with weapons. Other founding members of the FPL were Mélida Anaya Montes , who also had a leading position at ANDES , and Salvador Cayetano Carpio . After Salvador Cayetano Carpio committed suicide in 1983 after the murder of the FLMN deputy commander Mélida Anaya Montes, Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the commander of the FPL in the civil war and represented it at the FMLN and in the peace negotiations in Chapultepec Castle .

Since 2000 he has been a member of the Parliament of El Salvador for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional .

From 2001 to 2004 he was the general coordinator of the FMLN. When Schafik Handal died on January 24th, 2006, he took over the chairmanship of the FMLN in parliament. In the presidential election in March 2009, Sánchez Cerén ran as Vice President of Mauricio Funes and was elected together with him.

In the 2014 presidential election in El Salvador, he was the candidate of the ruling Left Liberation Front Farabundo Martí (FMLN). On February 2, 2014, he just missed the mark of more than 50 percent required for a win in the first round (49.2 percent). The required runoff took place on March 9, 2014 against the candidate of the right-wing National Republican Alliance ( ARENA ), Norman Quijano . This came in the first ballot to 38.9 percent of the vote. In the second ballot on March 9, 2014, Salvador Sánchez Cerén received 50.11 percent of the vote, his opponent 49.89 percent.

In the 2019 presidential election , Sánchez Cerén no longer ran as a candidate for the FMLN, but Hugo Martínez . However, this was defeated by the young rival candidate Nayib Bukele from the center-right party Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (GANA) , who took over the presidency on June 1, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Oehrlein: Election winner Sánchez Cerén: Former guerrillero becomes president of El Salvador. In: FAZ.net. March 18, 2014, accessed March 20, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Asamblea legislativa Diputado Cerén ( Memento of the original of February 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Leo Gabriel : El Salvador: Unidos Creceremos - Together we will grow . In: Latin America different. Austria's magazine for Latin America and the Caribbean , ISSN  1010-7223 , vol. 2014, issue 3 (July), p. 18.
4. ↑ El Salvador: former leftwing guerrilla takes lead in presidential election ( Memento of 19 February 2014 Internet Archive ). In: theguardian.com on February 3, 2014 (English).
5. ↑ Christa Rahner-Göhring: Tense situation after the election in El Salvador. In: amerika21.de. March 15, 2014, accessed March 16, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Head of state at 37: El Salvador elects Nayib Bukele as president . In: Spiegel Online . February 4, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 4, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Salvador Sánchez Cerén  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

predecessor	Office	successor
Mauricio Funes	President of El Salvador 2014-2019	Nayib Bukele