The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) of Nicaragua made official this Monday with its publication in the Official Gazette the results of the municipal elections on the 7th, in which the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the party in power, obtained the 100% of the country’s mayors (153).
Although the electoral calendar released by the CSE prior to the elections established that the final results of the municipal elections should be made official on November 14, said State Power highlighted that the publication of this Monday was issued “provisionally.”
According to the results published in La Gaceta by the Electoral, dominated by Sandinista magistrates, the municipal elections had the participation of 2,108,003 Nicaraguans, which represented 57.5% of the 3,722,884 Nicaraguans called to vote, in a country of 6.6 million inhabitants.
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According to the Observatory of political incidents Urnas Abiertas, made up of a multidisciplinary team and volunteers, in Sunday’s elections there was a participation of 17.33% and an abstentionism of 82.67%, based on a study carried out in 366 voting centers. of the 3,106 enabled, with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 5%.
The data from the observatory was similar to that indicated in the 2021 general elections, when it calculated the level of abstention at 81.5%, but the CSE set it at 34.74%.
In the days preceding the municipal elections, 13 opposition organizations called for abstention, arguing that it was a “flawed process” and because Ortega would seek to establish “an absolute dictatorial regime of a single party.”
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The indigenous party of the Caribbean of Nicaragua Yatama (sons of mother earth, in the Miskito language), denounced an alleged fraud in the recent elections, in municipalities of the North Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACN), as well as a police siege against its members.
As in 2021, the Nicaraguan authorities maintained the ban on three opposition parties from participating, while their leaders, who were arrested before the elections that year, remained in prison.
In the November 2021 elections, President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, were re-elected in controversial elections due to the annulment of three opposition political parties and the arrest of seven candidates for the Presidency, for which their legitimacy was rejected by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union.
