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Funes Enjoys Honeymoon Period in El Salvador
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes remains highly popular, according to a poll by CID-Gallup. 70 per cent of respondents approve of the head of state’s performance.
El Salvador held a legislative election in January. Final results gave the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) 42.60 per cent of the vote and 35 seats in the Legislative Assembly, followed by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) with 38.55 per cent and 32 seats. The National Conciliation Party (PCN), the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), and the Democratic Change (CD) party also elected members to the legislature.
A presidential election took place in March. The FMLN’s Funes won with 51.32 per cent of all cast ballots, defeating ARENA’s Rodrigo Ávila. ARENA had won four straight presidential elections in the Central American country. Incumbent president Antonio Saca was ineligible for a consecutive term in office. Funes was sworn in on Jun. 1.
On Aug. 13, Funes launched a program to revitalize the country’s agricultural sector that includes granting up to 3,000 legal property documents to farmers within the next three months. The president declared: "We want to turn the country-side into the locomotive of our nation’s development."
Polling Data
Do you approve or disapprove of Mauricio Funes’s performance as president?
|
Approve |
70% |
|
Disapprove |
15% |
|
Not sure |
15% |
Source: CID-Gallup
Methodology: Interviews with 1,205 Salvadoran adults, conducted from Jul. 25 to Jul. 31, 2009. Margin of error is 2.8 per cent.
