The Blue and White National Unity (UNAB), facing the municipal votes scheduled for next November, called on the Nicaraguan population to “empty the streets” and “ignore” the “electoral farce” that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario is preparing. Murillo with the aim of “taking complete control of all municipal governments.
“We repudiate, denounce and ignore the new farce that the regime is preparing for next November and from now on we call on the population and all opposition organizations to reject it, to close the doors and empty the streets as we did in November 2021,” the statement said. opposition organization in a statement.
In addition, he pointed out that the Ortega occupation against the five opposition mayors, led by mayors from the Citizens for Freedom (CxL) party, who were elected at the polls during the 2017 municipal elections, show the “definitive annihilation of the remains of autonomy municipal, which had barely resisted in recent years.
“This brazen takeover (of the opposition mayors) just four months before the supposed municipal elections, to be held next November, is another dictatorial blow that invalidates them”, they pointed out in the letter.
Dozens of Police agents, accompanied by paramilitaries, councilors from the Sandinista Front and delegates from the Nicaraguan Institute for Municipal Development (Inifom), took over, on July 5, the municipalities of San Sebastián de Yalí and El Cuá, in Jinotega; Murra, in Nueva Segovia; and El Almendro, in Río San Juan. Two days earlier, on July 2, the Mayor of Santa Maria de Pantasmain Jinotega, was also dispossessed.
From the UNAB they affirmed that the Ortega-Murillo regime will use, as in the general elections of 2021, in which he was re-elected without political competition for a fourth consecutive term, the same Electoral Law and an Electoral Power that is under its absolute control.
They also recalled that there are more than 190 political prisoners in the country, among these citizens imprisoned before and after the general voting organized by the regime in 2021.
UNAB will supervise “electoral farce”
Ana Quirós, member of the Political Council of the UNAB, detailed in the coming days they will be “talking with different forces of the Nicaraguan opposition that have already been expressing their position in relation to this electoral farce.”
“ANDWe are initiating conversations with some of the political groups, starting with the National Unity forces themselves and joining other spaces that have been repudiating, for example, the violent occupation of the Ciudadanos por la Libertad mayor’s offices,” Quirós said.
The members of the UNAB Political Council also announced that in the coming months they will be working with their structures, since, just as they did in 2021 during the general votes, they will monitor from the territories the “electoral farce” that the regime is preparing for November. next.
