ABSTRACT
This chapter provides in-depth analysis of three post-rebel electoral parties: the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador, Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) in Mozambique, and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland. These parties are present in electoral politics more than two decades and show great diversity in terms of understanding how they contributed to the political stability and peace. This chapter shows that these parties enjoyed moderate levels of electoral performance which allowed them to be either in the incumbent position or as the main opposition party. While FMLN and Sinn Fein adopted political competition as a strategy at different electoral, this chapter shows that long-term participation in politics can create viable, committed electoral parties that contend in competitive environments. This chapter shows that this is true for all three of our cases, even though Renamo was not fully committed to electoral competition as its only route to power.
