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El Salvador Other Parties
The 1985 crisis within the ranks of Arena produced a splinter
party that initially referred to itself as Free Fatherland
(Patria Libre). It was led by D'Aubuisson's 1984 running mate,
Hugo Barrera Guerrero, a prominent businessman. The early
prospects for the party, which subsequently changed its name to
the Liberation Party (Partido Liberacion--PL), seemed promising.
A number of observers felt that a center-right, probusiness party
could pick up much of the support that Arena seemed to have lost
in the 1984 and 1985 elections. The PL, however, was unable to
compete with Arena on an organizational basis and fared poorly in
the 1988 elections, coming away without a single seat in the
Legislative Assembly.
There were several other small political parties that ran
candidates in the 1988 elections but failed to garner any seats
in the Legislative Assembly. One of these was the Salvadorn
Authentic Institutional Party (Partido Autentico Institucional
Salvadoreno--PAISA), the conservative PCN splinter party. Another
small conservative party was the Authentic Revolutionary Party
(Partido Autentico Revolucionario--PAR). Democratic Action
(Accion Democratica--AD) was a moderate party that supported
Duarte and the PDC in the 1984 elections but subsequently
differed with the government's economic policies and assumed a
more independent stance. Rounding out the field was the extreme
right-wing Popular Orientation Party (Partido de Orientacion
Popular--POP).
Data as of November 1988
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