Salvadoran Rightists Name New Leader
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SAN SALVADOR — The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance on Sunday named as its new president a close associate of party founder Roberto D’Aubuisson.
D’Aubuisson--an ultrarightist and unofficial leader of the alliance, known as Arena, nominated Armando Calderon Sol, who was elected without opposition. Calderon is a longtime friend and defender of D’Aubuisson, who has denied widespead accusations that he sponsored right-wing death squads in the early 1980s.
Calderon takes over as party president from the country’s president-elect, Alfredo Cristiani, leader of Arena’s more moderate wing. Calderon and Cristiani, who led the party since September, 1985, have not been accused of involvement with death squads.
Cristiani was elected president on March 19. He takes power from the Christian Democratic government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte on June 1.
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