The United States Undersecretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols, condemned the arbitrary seizure of the five mayoralties led by the outlawed Citizens for Freedom (CxL) party, which the Daniel Ortega regime seized by force.
The assault on the municipal governments was ordered by the Nicaraguan dictatorship and carried out by police officers, accompanied by other political operators such as political secretaries, pro-government mayors and paramilitaries, who took over by force the communes of Santa María de Pantasma, San Sebastián de Yalí and El Cuá, in Jinotega; Murra, in Nueva Segovia; and El Almendro, in Río San Juan.
“The regime fears the voice of the people and denies them options in the municipal elections. Nicaraguans deserve a real democracy, not a farce,” said Brian Nichols on his Twitter account. Twitter.
In addition, the US diplomat argued that “the arbitrary dismissal of five democratically elected opposition mayors by the Ortega-Murillo regime is reprehensible.”
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The independent observatory Urnas Abiertas denounced that none of the illegal takeovers, neither the Police nor the political operators presented judicial orders or any other type of official documentation that justifies the action, rather retentions, verbal threats, illegal raids and an assault of characteristics were reported. military.
“Unofficially, it is known that the executors of the occupations illegitimately appointed new authorities, which have not yet been officially communicated or sworn in by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), so the information reported in this installment of Open Ballot Boxes could vary. if the regime so decides,” he said.
The agency explains that the Police is a State body “that safeguards order for the citizenry,” but “they transgress their own legal norm by not fulfilling their professional, apolitical, non-partisan nature and in strict adherence to the Political Constitution of Nicaragua.”
The new onslaught of the regime occurred four months before the 2022 municipal elections in Nicaragua, therefore opposition organizations assure that this attack on democracy is “a reflection” that the next electoral elections “will completely lack the participation of the people, because the Ortega-Murillo regime darkens the panorama of the electoral process in November and once again aims to eliminate all vestiges of real opposition».
