The spokesperson for the Nicaraguan regime, Rosario Murillo, stressed that her government is advancing on the issue of “gender equity”, because in this new legislative period the mayors and councilors of the 153 municipalities, who took office charge this Tuesday, are evenly distributed nationwide.
According to Murillo, of the 153 mayors elected in an alliance led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in last November’s elections, 77 are women and 76 are men; and of the 153 officials elected as vice mayors, 76 are women and 77 are men.
Likewise, of the 6,088 councilors elected in the 2022 municipal elections qualified as “illegitimate and not credible”, 3,044 women will assume the position of councilor and the same number will be led by men.
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«As we said yesterday (January 9) gender equality, justice for us women, but women and men, we are all a people, a great people, a people of love, a people of light, a people of life, a people of truth, true truths , a people that serves the people, a people who identify with the goals, objectives, what we want, the aspirations and dreams of all Nicaraguan families,” said the spokesperson for the regime in her speech by the official media this Tuesday. , January 10.
“Congratulations to all the mayors and to all the families of all the municipalities of Nicaragua where we are installing servers, servers to advance in compliance, in the realization of dreams, finding solutions all together to the problems that have been inherited from us, to the problems that they have imposed on us, but always happy, full of hope, full of energy and seeking the best,” added Rosario Murillo, without mentioning, of course, that all these mayors were imposed after a fraudulent vote where the “competitors” are actually a troupe of accomplices paid by his own regime and where abstention exceeded 82%, according to the Observatory Urnas Abiertas.
The FSLN, the party in power in Nicaragua for 16 years, took possession of 100% of the mayoralties of the Central American country on Tuesday. The mayors of the 153 municipalities were sworn in by the authorities of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), which is also controlled by magistrates affiliated with the party in power.
This is the first time since the 1980s of the last century, also under the mandate of former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega, that all of Nicaragua’s mayoralties are governed by the FSLN, a party that controls the four powers of the State, the Nicaraguan Army and the National Police.
The Sandinistas were proclaimed winners in the municipal elections of November 6, in a process that was characterized by the lack of competition against the ruling party in the 153 disputed mayoralties, since opposition leaders were kept in prison.
According to the CSE, the FSLN party obtained 54.9% of the 2,028,035 valid votes, out of a total of 3,692,733 Nicaraguans summoned to vote, in a country of 6.6 million inhabitants, after having discharged 785,601 voters without explaining the reasons.
With these results, the Sandinistas went from controlling 141 mayors to all the 153 communes that exist in Nicaragua, amid complaints from opponents about an apparent establishment of a “single party” by Ortega.
