The Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortegawill meet with the 153 Sandinista mayors who will take office next week, after the ruling FSLN party seized absolute control over the country’s municipalities through disputed elections.
The vice president, government spokesperson and Ortega’s wife, Rosario Murillo, reported that the Sandinista leader will hold a “national installation session” with the mayors, after the electoral magistrates hand over their credentials on January 10.
«This January 10, the municipal authorities receive all their credentials, as reported by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), and then they are installed, and we are going to have then with our commander Daniel, a national installation session this light year, of life, truth and so much love,” Murillo declared on Monday, January 2, in his usual phone call to official media.
Nicaragua held the elections on November 6, 2022, in which the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the party in power, 100% of the country’s mayoralties were awarded.
According to official data, 6,088 public positions will be renewed; the majority, trust cards of the presidential couple who will repeat as mayors and other positions.
According to the Urnas Abiertas observatory of political incidences, in the elections there was a participation of 17.33% and an abstentionism of 82.67%, based on a study carried out in 366 voting centers of the 3,106 enabled, with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 5%.
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As in the 2021 presidential elections, the Nicaraguan authorities maintained the ban on three opposition parties from participating, while their leaders, who were arrested before the elections that year, remained in prison.
In the days preceding the municipal elections, 13 opposition organizations called for abstention because it was a flawed process, and because Ortega would seek to establish “an absolute dictatorial regime and a single party.”
After the questioned votes, “Yatama militants say they won the mayoralties in several RACCN municipalities and that the ruling party intends to steal them. Faced with the demands of the citizenry, the police reacted with attacks», denounced Open Polls.
