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In 2004 and 2005, the FMLN experienced another split.

Five FMLN Legislative Assembly members, along with a number of their supporters, left the FMLN to form a new political party, the Democratic Revolutionary Front ( in Spanish: Frente Democratico Revolucionario ).

Some of the principal leaders of this split were Ileana Rogel and Francisco Jovel.

The people who left to form the FDR chose this name because it has a legacy in the Salvadoran movement ; an organization by the same name was formed under the leadership of the FMLN during the civil war to bring together parties and individuals doing legal political work during the civil war.

As opposed to previous splits from the FMLN which openly proclaimed that they were ideologically ' center ' or ' center-left ' or were no longer self-declared ' revolutionaries ', the people who split to form the FDR claimed to still be part of the leftist legacy of the FMLN.

In the 2006 elections, no FDR candidates won office, except for the incumbent mayor of Nejapa, Rene Canjura.

Canjura was a popular FMLN mayor of the municipality of Nejapa for three consecutive periods, and therefore under FMLN statutes, would not have been eligible to run for a fourth consecutive period.

So he left the FMLN and successfully ran in 2006 as the FDR candidate.

Other than him, no FDR candidates won any electoral victories in 2006.