The magistrate of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court of Justice, Ileana Pérez López, presented on Friday her resignation to the body arguing health reasons. He had been in office for eight years.
Pérez’s resignation will be presented on Tuesday for a vote in the National Assembly, which has a pro-government majority.
The magistrate would have been subjected to an interrogation days ago in the maximum security cells, known as El Chipote, and then would have been released, according to the former official of the Judiciary, Yader Morazán, said on Twitter.
“The resignation of Judge Ileana Pérez appeared. Yesterday she said goodbye to her staff together with two police officers, and today the Assembly scheduled to discuss her resignation. Now what’s next in the mafia?” wrote Morazán, who is in exile in the United States.
was previously arrested the spokesman for the Judiciary, Roberto Larios, a staunch defender of the Ortega government, after being investigated for alleged treason against the country. This charge is often imposed on opponents.
“Night of the Daggers”
Some critics of Ortega have pointed out that the “resignations” and arrests of even the government officials themselves are part of an “implosion” within the Sandinista Front party.
“The fall of Judge Ileana Pérez today is just a sample of the night of the daggers that the dictatorship is experiencing. They are all suspects and they can all be potential traitors. The destruction of the dictatorship will come from within. Nicaragua will be a Republic again,” Ortega’s former ambassador to the OAS, Arturo McFields, wrote about it.
This would be the second resignation of a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice in the four years of political crisis that Nicaragua is experiencing.
The first was Rafael Solisa close friend of the presidential family exiled in Costa Rica, after denouncing the establishment of “a dictatorship with characteristics of absolute monarchy.”
In a lengthy letter, which was not accepted or presented in the National Assembly as required by law, the former magistrate warned that if a solution to the crisis shaking Nicaragua is not found, a civil war could break out.
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