Different Nicaraguan opposition organizations in Costa Rica will march on Sunday, November 6, in rejection of the municipal election process mounted by the Daniel Ortega regime.
The activity will begin at nine in the morning, leaving La Merced Park towards Plaza de la Democracia, in San José, Costa Rica.
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The professor and ex-politician Gabriel Putoy said to Article that the day’s objective is to “repudiate the electoral farce” and the reform of the electoral law so that people with expired IDs can exercise their vote.
“It is not by putting patches on the issue that the crisis in the country is going to be solved, because it is not that the population is negligent and does not want to update their identity card, but rather that there is a political background, there is an economic crisis and people do not have to pay the 300 córdobas to renew their identification, ”said the also member of the Reflection Group for Political Prisoners (Grex).
Another reason for the call is to demand the release of at least 219 political prisoners held in different prisons in the country, the end of the persecution against the Catholic Church and the harassment of opponents.
Putoy stated that the march is not led by any specific organization or political group, but that they joined together to “demand justice.” “Most of the opposition groups are summoned to march and tell the international community that everything Ortega does is illegitimate,” he said.
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Some of the organizations that will participate in the event are part of the Reflection Group for Political Prisoners (Grex), the Blue and White National Unity (Unab), the Articulation of Social Movements, the Nicaraguan Exiles Unit. Professor Putoy pointed out that other organizations and “citizens of good will who support the Nicaraguan people” are also invited to participate.
“This is a mutual agreement, a gentleman’s agreement, where we all agree that what will take place next Sunday in Nicaragua is an electoral farce,” the exiled teacher remarked.
As happened in November 2021 with the presidential elections, the Nicaraguan regime has called municipal elections full of anomalies and has held more than 200 political prisoners captive.
