The 76-year-old president will assume his fifth five-year term, the fourth in a row and the second with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president.
Opponents of the Government of the Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega, staged this Monday in front of the Nicaraguan embassy in Madrid a pan organized against his inauguration for a fifth consecutive term, four of them consecutive.
On the same day, various opposition organizations convened in Costa Rica a day of protest in various countries under the slogan “Nicaragua has no government or legitimate powers of the State.”
Nicaraguan exiles in that country held a vigil on Sunday night to express their rejection of the new mandate of Ortega, whom they consider illegitimate.
With banners and candles, and many of them dressed in the blue and white of the Nicaraguan flag, the exiles gathered in the Plaza de la Democracia, in the capital of Costa Rica, a place that has become the meeting point of the Nicaraguans for this type of activity.
The slogan “Illegitimate Ortega” is the main message that motivated this demonstration, called by various organizations of exiles and the Nicaraguan opposition that have been operating from Costa Rica for months.
Costa Rica, a neighbor of Nicaragua, is one of the main places for Nicaraguan exile, along with other nations such as the United States.
Meanwhile, in Madrid the slogans of “Since 2018, Ortega is not our president”, were heard.
“The illegitimate Daniel Ortega today is taking a position on elections that have not been recognized by the majority of the international community,” he told Efe the lawyer and member of the opposition organization SOS Nicaragua Madrid, Rayid Alvarado.
Summoned under the slogan “Illegitimate Ortega”, the participants chanted “this embassy does not represent us”, “murderers”, “Ortega and Somoza are the same thing”.
The opponents demanded the release of “the more than 170 political prisoners” from the country’s prisons, “justice for the disappeared since 2018” and respect for the human rights of Nicaraguans.
“You can say a political prisoner to someone who has had a trial, but they have not even had that right,” Araceli Sauceda, of the board of directors of SOS Nicaragua Madrid, explained to Efe.
Sauceda added that people like her have come out “democratically to raise our voice with a flag and all this has meant imprisonment, exile, murder, kidnapping and also the disappearance of our people and the opposition of Nicaragua.”
Ortega, 76 years old, plans to assume his fifth five-year term on Monday, the fourth consecutive and second, together with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president, in a ceremony held in the Plaza de la Revolución, in Managua, after an election that was marked by the imprisonment of the main opposition candidates.
Ortega has remained in power since 2007 after having coordinated a Governing Board from 1979 to 1985 and presiding over the country for the first time from 1985 to 1990.
The Sandinista leader, whose new mandate has not been recognized by the bulk of the international community, will be able to remain in office until January 2027 and serve 20 years in a row in power, an unprecedented case in the recent history of Nicaragua and the Americas. Current Latina. (I)
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