Over at La Prensa Grafica, an organ of the PCN, both Saca and Handal are declaring their victories in the first round, as usual. Of interest, the CDU, a centrist party that split from the FMLN, and whose candidates are often the last election's centrist FMLN candidates, has Hector Silva as their candidate. Hector Silva was the mayor of San Salvador for the FMLN, but didn't do a hell of alot, except oppose a plan to mechanize the garbage dumps which would have had terrible effects for the people that live there. His rather weak centrist platform could provide the spoiler that ARENA needs to break an FMLN victory. Of note, in 1996 in Nicaragua, according to NACLA, 50,000 ballots were found in the backyard of the head of the electoral commission. El Salvador is similar in that the ruling party has majority control over the TSE, or electoral commission. This leaves plenty of room for number fudging.