The Ortega Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) swore in the members of the Departmental and Regional Electoral Councils for the municipal votes that will take place on November 6. The CSE is accused of forging “fraud” to favor the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party.
Judge Brenda Rocha, president of the CSE, was in charge of swearing in the members of the satellite parties that will simulate “competing” against the candidates of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
For the Departmental and Regional Electoral Councils that are odd (17), the swearing-in and inauguration was 50% plus one chaired by women, that is, 9 women as presidents and 8 men as presidents; Of a total of 51 proprietary positions, 26 are made up of women and 25 by men.
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During the official act of the CSE, the presiding magistrate of the Electoral Power affirmed that the members of the Departmental and Regional Electoral Councils “have the responsibility to safeguard the sovereignty of the people, to defend the exercise of suffrage with full self-determination in accordance with our Political Constitution, we It is up to us to safeguard our independence by strictly adhering to the law.”
According to official data, at least 4.4 million citizens will be able to participate in the municipal elections, out of a total of 6.5 million Nicaraguans. In the voting, 153 mayors, 153 deputy mayors, and more than 6,000 councilors from all the country’s municipalities will be “elected.”
According to analysis of the citizen observatory Open Ballot Boxes, the disputed municipal votes will cost Nicaraguans 31.1 million dollars. 40% of that total is earmarked for the payment of electoral campaign expenses to political parties, the most benefited would be the FSLN due to the high percentage of votes assigned to it by the CSE.
The electoral court is accused of executing and directing an “electoral farce” in which the FSLN is expected to gain absolute control of the country’s 153 mayors’ offices after eliminating any trace of opposition in 2021 with the cancellation of three political parties that would bring together groups that criticize the Ortega Murillo administration.
