Open Ballot Boxes denounces that Ortega deputies and collaborator parties are “desperate” to conceal the abstentionism that they anticipate will be registered in the municipal elections to be held on November 6. For this reason, they promote the initiative of the Special Law for the Validity of Expired Identity Cards.
With this proposal, the regime seeks to allow the incorporation and activation of citizens with the expired cells to the electoral roll, so that they can vote without inconveniences. “This measure demonstrates the desperation of the Sandinista and collaborationist deputies to hide the abstentionism that is expected for the elections,” says the observatory.
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Open Ballot Boxes highlights that these situations have been observed under the mandate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), but the difference is that article 3 of the proposal presented for this 2022 extends the validity and effects of the law for regional elections scheduled for 2024.
“In its bulletin No.10, the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) assured that between January 3 and October 21, 2022, it has carried out 549,712 identification procedures. However, the possible approval of this law denotes that the measures carried out by the Electoral Power are insufficient for the citizenry,” the organization’s document refers.
Given this, he points out that “we have seen these bills and extensions of expired identity cards in the last eight years; where the FSLN and the CSE, through the Assembly, give an open letter so that the political parties receive votes from the citizens who have expired IDs.”
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The independent observatory denounces that Ortega continues to rely on the Constitution to carry out these actions, especially with articles 2 and 178, which, in the opinion of the organization, “are not enough to give credibility to the next elections to be held; modifying again in the same year, articles of the already reformed Electoral Law approved last May».
The Nicaraguan regime is preparing its municipal elections, in which the ruling party will go along with other political groups, called comparsas.
