The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, criticized the Sandinista victory in the last Nicaraguan municipal elections. “An electoral process that is carried out without freedom, reliable electoral justice and imprisoned or banned opponents, it is not democracy anywhere in the world,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Municipal elections were held in Nicaragua on Sunday. Of 153 mayoralties “in dispute” Ortega won all 153. An electoral process that is carried out without freedom, reliable electoral justice and imprisoned or banned opponents is not a democracy anywhere in the world.
— Gabriel Boric Font (@gabrielboric) November 9, 2022
The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) awarded the Sandinista Front all the mayor’s offices of the 153 municipalities of the country. The Electoral Power is controlled by representatives linked to the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“We will continue to push in multilateral spaces the need to guarantee in Nicaragua the reestablishment of the democratic guarantees and freedoms of a rule of law and an end to all attacks against opponents,” the Chilean president wrote.
According to data supported by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), currently in Nicaragua there are more than 220 political prisonersas a product of the local sociopolitical crisis.
Boric has openly criticized the authoritarian drift of the Ortega regime. During his speech last September at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations, the Chilean president called “to continue working to contribute to the release of political prisoners in Nicaragua.”
Boric’s position has earned him insults from Ortega, who He called him a “lapdog” during the act of the 43rd anniversary of the National Police, at the end of September.
“The government that wants to receive applause from the Yankee empire (USA) and from some governments of the European Union go out there, like lapdogs, to talk that political prisoners in Nicaragua must be released,” Ortega said about Boric.
Rodrigo Chaves responds to Ortega
The Costa Rican president, Rodrigo Chaves, responded to the Nicaraguan dictator, who in the previous one assured that Costa Rica is the base of a group of “terrorists”as he calls the opponents, who have had to flee due to the persecution and violence of the regime’s police, paramilitaries and Ortega fanatics.
“Costa Rica is not a base for any terrorist group and the Government of the Republic adheres to the rules of international coexistence and We are not giving refuge to any terrorist, much less to attack or plan attacks on any neighboring country.”, Chaves said during a conference of the council of ministers.
“We want to maintain cordial relations with all the countries of the world and we will continue in that line as an icon of peace and a shining example to the world of how democracy can work,” assured the Costa Rican president.
During the closing of a congress of the Sandinista Youth, Ortega commented that, during the municipal votes, there was no violence in Nicaragua. “And that they made plans, sponsored by the Yankees, by the European governments, whose ambassadors conspire here with the terrorists, to give them financing to promote violence.”
“Despite that,” he continued, “despite the millions they were given in Costa Rica, which is a terrorist base and what they have there. They failed to provoke acts of violence because this people is convinced that a vote is worth more for the progress and well-being of the country than a drop of blood!”
