The Chilean president Gabriel Boric, of leftist tendency, criticized this Wednesday on Twitter the municipal elections that were held on Sunday in Nicaragua which granted all the mayorships to the ruling party.
Boric said that “an electoral process that is carried out without freedom, reliable electoral justice and imprisoned opponents is not democracy,” referring to Nicaragua, whose state powers are said to be controlled by his counterpart Daniel Ortega.
“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,” Boric wrote on Twitter.
In the same way, the president assured that they would continue to push in multilateral spaces “the need to guarantee in Nicaragua the reestablishment of the democratic guarantees and freedoms of a State of law”, in the same way the “end to all attacks against opponents ”.
However, Ortega said that these elections “clearly indicated” that “it is possible to ensure peace” through the vote, despite the absence of international observers or the Nicaraguan opposition.
“These were elections where no bullets were fired, no students, policemen, young people were burned, medical centers, schools were not set on fire, the people were not blocked, they were not bathed in blood, like the terrorists, financed by the Yankee empire” , stressed the president.
During the municipal votes held on November 6, some 31 people who were critical of Ortega were arrested, according to the independent organization Urnas Abiertas.
Pablo Cuevas, director of the Human Rights Ombudsman, based in Miami, said in this regard that the arrests sought to “continue sowing terror in Nicaraguans just so that no one would dare to make any protest action on the day of the electoral farce.”
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