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Nicaragua Faces the Worst Possible Election Scenario
The crossroads of CxL facing the exclusion of the Coalition, and the path of civic resistance to demand the suspension of the police state
Nicaragua is headed for the worst possible election on November 7
th. We’re facing an election without guarantees or electoral reforms, and with tightened FSLN control over the electoral apparatus. Ten magistrates loyal to President Daniel Ortega were recently named to the Electoral Council.
In addition, it’s an election to be held under a police state, with more than 120 political prisoners and no public freedoms. With a divided opposition – Citizens Alliance for Freedom on one side and the National Coalition on the other – the electoral scenario could be even worse.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Nicaraguan National Assembly (Parliament), controlled by the ruling party, elected this Tuesday the magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), mostly Sandinistas, given the general elections of next November, in which President Daniel Ortega aspires to his third consecutive reelection.
Nicaraguan Parliament elects Sandinistas as electoral arbitrators. (Photo internet reproduction)
The Sandinista legislators and their allies, who have an absolute majority in Congress, reelected as electoral magistrates former guerrilla Lumberto Campbell and Mayra Salinas.
They also elected as electoral arbitrators the “former Sandinista combatant” Brenda Rocha and Alma Nubia Baltodano Marcenaro, sister of the “guerrilla commander” Monica Baltodano.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Julie Chung on Monday, May 3rd, urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Sandinista deputies to make the electoral system more credible when they discuss an announced electoral reform. President Ortega and his supporters should take this opportunity to make the electoral system more credible, the diplomat said in a message sent to the media by the U.S. Embassy in Managua.
The Nicaraguan Parliament, controlled by the ruling party, plans to discuss Electotal Law reforms, proposed by the Sandinistas, which are seen by the opposition as a . . .
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