Guillermo Manuel Ungo Revelo (September 3, 1931 – February 28, 1991) was a

Salvadoran Salvadorans (Spanish: ''Salvadoreños''), also known as Salvadorians (alternate spelling: Salvadoreans), are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvad ...

social democratic politician. He was a member of the ruling government junta from 1979 to 1980. Ungo was for a time the unofficial leader of the opposition in his capacity as president of the

Revolutionary Democratic Front The Revolutionary Democratic Front ( es, Frente Democrático Revolucionario, FDR) was a coalition of mass organizations in El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Sal ...

alliance. He ran in the Salvadoran presidential election of 1972 as the vice presidential

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Christian democrat Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...

José Napoleón Duarte José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes (23 November 1925 – 23 February 1990) was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1984 to 1 June 1989. He was mayor of San Salvador before running for president in 1972. He l ...

. Official results showed a victory for the military-backed candidate, Arturo Armando Molina, though the fairness of the election was widely disputed. He returned from a long exile in November 1987 with the other leading opposition politician,

Rubén Zamora Rubén Ignacio Zamora Rivas (born November 9, 1942) is a Salvadoran politician. Education *until the age of nineteen he studied in a Seminary, got influenced by the theology of liberation, was attracted by ecclesial base communities, where ...

, a political ally. Their respective organizations merged in December 1987 into the Democratic Convergence, but this new group did not contribute candidates in the parliamentary elections of 1988.

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