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(22 Mar 2004) APTN San Salvador, 21 Mar 2004 1. Wide view of polling station 2. Various of vote counting 3. Wide view of presidential candidate Tony Saca and vice presidential candidate at victory rally 4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Tony Saca, Arena Party - President-Elect/El Salvador: "Thank you for voting for a safe country. Thank you for saving this country. Thank you for that extraordinary manifestation in the street. El Salvador has spoken. The people have spoken and the people decided today. And that is the benediction of this populus which we will respect." 5. Various of Arena Party supporters celebrating in the streets of San Salvador 6. Wide view of Shafik Handal, FMLN Candidate walking onto stage 7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Shafik Handal, FMLN Presidential Candidate: "We recognize the results, but we don't congratulate the winner because this vote was achieve by ARENA and Mr. Saca through fear. And a vote won through fear is a vote cast without freedom." 8. Wide view of Handal and supporters, push into Handal as he leaves STORYLINE: Former sportscaster Tony Saca easily won El Salvador's presidential race, promising to continue the direction of one of the most pro-U.S. governments in the hemisphere. But the former Communist Party guerrilla leader who lost accused Saca of resorting to "lies, fear and blackmail" to win and warned that his party would fight a proposed free-trade agreement with the United States. With about 73 percent of ballots counted, Saca's Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, had 57.6 percent of the vote, easily avoiding a May 2 runoff for the five-year term, which begins June 1. Schafik Handal of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, had 35.7 percent and two small parties took the rest. Fireworks burst across the sky of the capital and cheering Saca supporters drove the streets waving flags in celebration overnight. Saca promised to be "a president of all Salvadorans," said he would name a presidential commission to aid Salvadorans in the United States and vowed to crack down harder on crime. He endorsed the recently negotiated Central American free trade agreement with the United States and said he would not restore ties with Cuba. He avoided answering Sunday when asked if he would pull Salvadoran troops out of the Iraq coalition. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...