the Ortega Harold Baltodano Cruz, son of the deceased mayor of Diriamba, Ferdinand Baltodanois the candidate for mayor of the same municipality by the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) for the municipal elections to be held on November 6.
The candidacy was confirmed by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) through the Provisional Registry of Candidates of all the country’s municipalities, published this Tuesday, September 13, in the Official Gazette, the Gazette.
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The running mate (vice mayor) of Fernando Baltodano’s son is Mayling Figueroa, who currently occupies that same position in the Mayor’s Office after the death of the Diriambino mayor.
This confirms the publication made by Article 66 since the third of this month, where it had been known that the dictatorship would impose Baltodano’s eldest son as a candidate for mayor.
Baltodano Cruz is an engineer by profession, according to the Facebook page of the Diriamba commune. He is currently secretary general of the Mayor’s Office in Diriambina, however, before having this position he was mayor of the municipal market, in a clear episode of nepotism.
Supposedly mayor committed suicide
Unofficially it became known that the Sandinista mayor had committed suicide with a shot to the head. His vehicle was found in a mountainous area located between the Diriamba-La Boquita highway.
Officials from the Mayor’s Office commented anonymously to La Prensa that in the weeks prior to Baltodano’s “suicide,” his office was intervened by the Nicaraguan Institute for Municipal Development (Inifom) “due to a problem with some checks.”
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The last time the Sandinista mayor was seen publicly was on August 17 when he handed over a piece of land where five houses from the Bismarck Martínez program will begin to be built.
For her part, the spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan regime, Rosario Murillo, assured that the mayor of Diriamba made the decision to take his own life because of the depression “that had been afflicting him”, without the police, also at the service of Ortega, report with forensic expertise, the causes of his death.
After the death of Fernando Baltodano, his son has been seen in activities of the Mayor’s Office together with the current deputy mayor and candidate for the same position. On September 2, the son of the deceased mayor was seen together with Mayling Figueroa in what they called the Institutional Technical Council with Directors and Area Heads of the Mayor’s Office.
Who was the mayor of Diriamba?
According to information compiled by the independent Urnas Abiertas observatory, Fernando Baltodano was a departmental deputy for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Carazo, in the period 2012-2017. The board of directors of the National Assembly granted him permission to exercise in the Mayor’s Office of Diriamba, even though he was a deputy. He was elected mayor in 2013, since then he has been in office consecutively.
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During the 2018 protests, the late mayor was pointed out on social media for directing and paying vigilante groups with municipal funds, promoting clashes between Sandinista militants and opponents who were marching civically. According to Open Urnas, the Sandinista mayor, together with Mayor Mariano Madrigal, from Jinotepe, directed the massacre in Carazo.
The November municipal elections are pointed out as fraudulent by opponents, after the Sandinista Front competes with so-called collaborationist parties, which are subject to the designs of the red and black party.
