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President: Salvador Sanchez Ceren.

A Salvadoran former politician, guerrilla commander, and school teacher who served as the 80th president of El Salvador from to

A former rebel leader, Salvador Sanchez Ceren won the presidential run-off of March by a narrow margin. As presidential candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Marti Liberation Front FMLN , he beat Norman Quijano of the conservative Arena party by less than a quarter of a percentage point, becoming the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American country.

In his inauguration speech, he promised to fight corruption and violence, and "to serve as president of all Salvadorans". Mr Sanchez Ceren, 69, also promised that "security, employment and education" would be the priorities of his government. The FMLN became a political party after the peace accords. As president, he succeeds Mauricio Funes, a former journalist whose FMLN government elected in ended two decades of conservative rule, mostly under Arena.

Mr Sanchez Ceren was vice-president in the Funes government. Among the challenges he faces are dealing with a resurgence of violence by criminal gangs, a struggling economy, and endemic poverty. Image source, Reuters. Sanchez Ceren is a former left-wing guerrilla leader.