A group of senators from the Spanish parliament approved three motions that condemn the persecution of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the Nicaraguan opposition.
The proposals received the approval this week in the Ibero-American Affairs Commission of the Senate with the favorable vote of 24 of the 25 deputies that make it up, the agency reported. Europe Press on your website.
The resolutions were presented by the parliamentary groups of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the Popular Party (PP), in which they denounce the serious situation in Nicaragua, the onslaught of the Central American dictatorship against dissenting voices, demand the release of political prisoners and their criminal proceedings and the holding of free elections in the country.
The senators urge the government of President Pedro Sánchez to continue rejecting the results of the November 2021 elections, which were classified as “fraudulent” by the European Union (EU) and twenty other countries of the international community, which caused a greater isolation of Nicaragua. In addition, that Spain continue “providing support to Nicaraguan citizens who are the object of repression that annuls their rights and freedoms without the real possibility of exercising their political rights.”
“The senators also consider that Spain should lead a “concerted action” at the international level so that the Nicaraguan authorities restore civil and political rights to citizens and desist from their current repressive drift, giving way to the holding of free elections and with democratic guarantees in the country”, he highlights.
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The resolution also urges Sánchez to continue calling on Ortega and Murillo to end the repression, the de facto police state that has been installed in the country and the persecution against university autonomy, “fundamental pieces in the architecture of every society free and plural.
In addition, they demand that the situation of human rights and the democratic deterioration in Central America be included in the Spain-United States working group on Central America, especially the issue of Nicaragua as a “priority issue.” Spain has led actions in favor of the Nicaraguan people from the European Parliament that have resulted in sanctions against high officials and government institutions of the Ortega Murillo regime.
