Schafik Jorge Hándal

…Antonio Saca, defeated the FMLN’s Schafik Jorge Hándal, a former guerrilla commander. Arena also won the most seats in the 2006 legislative elections.

…campaigned effectively against FMLN candidate Schafik Jorge Hándal, a former guerrilla commander. While appealing to labour with promises not to privatize the country’s social security and health care systems, Saca made anticommunism a major issue and warned that an FMLN victory would destroy El Salvador’s good relations with the United…