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After a Final Challenge, Election Officials Declare a Winner in El Salvador After a Final Challenge, Election Officials Declare a Winner in El Salvador
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After election officials turned aside complaints of fraud in the March 9 presidential election, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, a former leftist guerrilla commander in the country’s 12-year civil war, was officially declared the victor on Sunday night. Mr. Cerén, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, will take office on June 1, becoming the first former rebel commander to rise to the presidency. He defeated Norman Quijano, the candidate of the National Republican Alliance, by 6,364 votes, winning 50.1 percent of the three million votes that were cast. Late Sunday, election officials rejected a petition by the National Republican Alliance, or Arena, to annul the results of the election. Mr. Cerén has promised to govern as a moderate and help reconcile a nation heavily divided since the end of the civil war in 1992. After election officials turned aside complaints of fraud in the March 9 presidential election, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, a former leftist guerrilla commander in the country’s 12-year civil war, was officially declared the victor on Sunday night. Mr. Sánchez Cerén, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, will take office on June 1, becoming the first former rebel commander to rise to the presidency. He defeated Norman Quijano, the candidate of the National Republican Alliance, by 6,364 votes, winning 50.1 percent of the three million votes that were cast. Late Sunday, election officials rejected a petition by the National Republican Alliance, or Arena, to annul the results of the election. Mr. Sánchez Cerén has promised to govern as a moderate and help reconcile a nation heavily divided since the end of the civil war in 1992.