Opponents of the current government had called not to participate in the presidential elections, understanding that there were no conditions to hold free and fair elections. The participation has been around 65% according to the Supreme Electoral Council.
The current president of Nicaragua and candidate for reelection, Daniel Ortega, has won the general elections held this Sunday in the country with 74.99% of the votes, according to the first official data provided this Monday by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). The former leader of the Sandinista revolution, Daniel Ortega, will win a fourth consecutive term, accumulating power for five more years.
With seven aspiring opposition presidential candidates in prison and another two in exile, accused of “treason,” Daniel Ortega, in power since 2007, was emerging almost as the only option. For all these reasons, opponents of the current government had called not to participate in the presidential elections, understanding that there were no conditions to hold free and fair elections.
The participation it has been 65.34%, according to the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). However, the independent multidisciplinary observatory Urnas Abiertas has set abstention at 81.5%.
More of 4.4 million people 90 deputies of the National Assembly and 20 representatives of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) were called to participate to elect its president and vice president.
With 49.25% of the ballots counted, Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) leads the way with 74.99% of the supporters. Behind are the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC), with 14.4% of the votes, the Nicaraguan Christian Way, with 3.44% of the votes; the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance, with 3.27%; Alliance for the Republic, with 2.2%, and the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), with 1.7%.
Protests in Costa Rica
Thousands of Nicaraguan exiles in Costa Rica have protested this Sunday through the main streets of the capital against the “electoral fraud” orchestrated, according to them, by President Ortega. Likewise, they have asked the population not to go out to vote and the international community not to recognize the electoral results in Nicaragua, considering that the process is a farce that only seeks to re-elect Ortega.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), for its part, described the presidential elections in Nicaragua as a “sham”.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has called the elections in Nicaragua a “pantomime” this Sunday and has threatened to apply sanctions to the Central American country.
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