The political opportunism of the Sandinista Front emerged during the tragedy caused by the recent impact of Hurricane Julia in Nicaragua, by turning the acts of delivering aid for those affected by the climate phenomenon into propaganda rallies to ask for the vote in favor of the red and black mayors. .
The inauguration of the Wanna Boom bridge, held this Wednesday, October 19, also became an evident electoral campaign act to ask for the vote in favor of the Sandinista mayors in the North Caribbean area.
With the effects caused by the julia rainsthe media of the regime’s propaganda apparatus were filled with reports in which the red and black communal authorities were mobilized to the affected areas to assess the damage and bring aid, and incidentally, ask for the vote in favor of the Sandinista Front for the voting next November 6.
The mayor of Managua, Reyna Rueda, and the deputy mayor, Enrique Armas, finger taxes for re-election in office, they mobilized through some of the affected neighborhoods of the capital, wearing red and black scarves, and highlighting the “effective work of the Sandinista mayors and the good government of Commander Daniel (Ortega) and compañera Rosario (Murillo)”, who They control the FSLN.
Rueda visited shelters and areas affected by the downpours. He widely publicized his tour of the Walter Ferreti neighborhood, where he hugged a disconsolate woman because her house was destroyed by a falling tree.
“Thanks to our commitment, they received an immediate response from our good Government and in the next few days they will be in safe and decent homes,” quoted the text on the social networks of the Mayor of Mangua that accompanied the photo.
Julia impacted Nicaragua on Sunday, October 9 as a category one hurricane, entering the country between Orinoco and Laguna de Perlas in the southern Caribbean of Nicaragua. The Ortega regime estimated at more than 300 million dollars damage caused by the cyclone.
The control of the FSLN in the mayoralties of Nicaragua
In the municipal elections in 2017, the Sandinista Front was assigned 141 mayorships in a process plagued with anomalies and without transparency. In addition, they usurped seven mayors that they were in opposition hands and that they were assaulted military manual by operators of the Ortega regime.
In Río Blanco, Mayor Martha Bucardo Polanco and her Vice Mayor Fanor Antonio Montoya Castilblanco were also finger-taxed as candidates for mayor and deputy mayor to seek re-election. The area was hit hard by the passage of Julia, which was used by Ortega officials to make political proselytism.
“We have come to make ourselves present in the affected places, the mayor of the town and the good government of Commander Daniel,” Mayor Bucardo said in a report for the Channel 4 television propaganda medium.
In the case of the inauguration of the bridge in the wawa river, a work that directly connects the Caribbean with the center and the Pacific zone of Nicaragua, was converted into an act of proselytism, with political secretaries and mayors of the Sandinista Front of Siuna, Bonanza, Rosita, Bilwi, Prinzapolka, Waspán and Mulukuku making a call to vote in the red and black box.
The enormous presence of red and black flags, party posters, images of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on t-shirts, scarves, and calls from the event host to vote in box two this coming November 6 plagued the social media broadcasts of the propaganda of the regime on the inauguration of the infrastructure.
“Remember, this November 6 to vote in box two. Long live Commander Daniel, long live Comrade Rosario”, shouted the host of the event, chaired by the head of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, retired General Oscar Mojica, one of the regime officials sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury. .
Priority: electoral campaign for the Sandinista Front
The political analyst and former opposition deputy Eliseo Núñez stressed that the electoral opportunism of the Sandinista Front will take advantage of any work, project or help received due to an emergency (such as the impact of Julia) to proselytize.
“Any aid that this government manages, loans, indebtedness, they do not do it for the country, but they do it to favor the party. These are one of the things that multilateral organizations do not want to see”, criticized Núñez Morales.
Political proselytism persists in every inauguration
Ivania Álvarez, from the civic body for electoral observation and transparency, Urnas Abiertas, confirmed that the monitoring has revealed the use of public resources in the different mayor’s offices for the promotion and propaganda of the Sandinista Front candidates.
“There is a lot of political proselytism with everything. Any type of inauguration, be it 100 or 200 meters of linear streets or deliveries of solar panels, schools, food deliveries, park inaugurations is used for political proselytizing,” he explained.
“With the case of the impact of Hurricane Julia, what we found in our monitoring is the case of Bluefields, when the authorities of the mayor’s office were handing out zinc sheets, there were complaints from the population saying that they were only handing it over to Sandinista militants. ”, he added.
Álvarez stressed that in the case of Julia, despite the specific complaints from the population with the delivery of zinc sheets or the transfer to shelters, these were not relevant because these humanitarian operations were not so massive.
However, the member of Open Ballot Boxes He considered that it is evident that the propaganda machinery of the dictatorship does not miss an opportunity to make political proselytism.
Any opportunity also includes the activities of next November 2, when the Day of the Dead is celebrated. A publication in an FSLN propaganda outlet cites: “The town halls are working to guarantee cleanliness, renovation, security and good care for the families who will be visiting and honoring their faithful departed this November 1 and 2 in the municipal cemeteries. and community”.
