The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo presented this past Wednesday before the Sandinista Assembly a gigantic reform project to the Political Constitution of Nicaragua Among which stands out the extension of the presidential term from five to six years.
For the human rights defender and expelled from Nicaragua by the Sandinista regime, Ana Quirós, by expanding the presidential termOrtega and Murillo seek to buy time to consolidate the installation of their dynastic model in the state and “arrange their chips” to eliminate any type of opposition.
“What they want is to finish establishing themselves as a quasi-monarchical, dictatorial system with a supposed constitutional foundation,” says Quirós.
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For the Nicaraguan opponent Felix Maradiaga, the extension of the presidential term is one of the most worrying aspects of this reform because it destroys any vestige of democratic alternation in power, and also seeks to shamelessly align the Nicaragua with regimes like China and Russia.
Ortega has made 11 reforms to the Nicaraguan constitution since coming to power in 2007, including indefinite reelection.
«Despotic constitution, only in this way can we define the new political constitution “which will come into effect next year and which, among other reforms, seeks to extend the presidential term from five to six years (…) Nicaraguans must be clear that this is a serious violation of fundamental rights as our Magna Carta is altered,” he says. the Nicaraguan Democratic Concertation in social network X.
Although the law is not retroactive (it should not apply to the current mandate), it probably Ortega He will serve his fifth presidential term (the fourth consecutive) in 2027, after the reform presented by the dictatorship is approved, probably tomorrow, Friday.
