The government of USA assured that the presidential elections of Nicaragua November will be a sham and they have lost all credibility due to the president’s autocratic maneuvers, Daniel Ortega.
The spokesman for the State Department, Ned Price, referred to the prohibition to appear in the elections to opposition leaders, so the electoral process has lost all credibility.
For the spokesman, it is “already a foregone conclusion that Ortega will make sure that the November elections are a sham, and that he will proclaim himself victorious.”
Price noted that autocratic maneuvers such as the veto of the opposition in the elections, as well as the arrests of dozens of human rights activists, journalists and student leaders in recent months highlight the fear of free and fair elections and the desire to remain in power at any cost to the Nicaraguan president.
On November 7, Nicaragua will hold presidential elections amid a wave of arrests that has imprisoned 37 opposition leaders, including presidential candidates, businessmen, and journalists, for crimes such as treason and conspiracy to compromise integrity. national.
In these elections, Ortega, 76, will seek his third consecutive reelection, for a fourth term of five years and a second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president.
The United States has imposed several rounds of economic sanctions on senior Nicaraguan officials, including several of the president’s sons.
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