The arrest of seven candidates for the Presidency of Nicaragua demonstrates the use of “illegal and deceptive methods to eliminate all electoral competition.”
The elections on November 7 in Nicaragua are “A malicious plan to end democracy”, According to a study released this Wednesday, prepared by the Nicaraguan observatory Urnas Abiertas, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), and the Center for Political and Government Studies of the Andrés Bello Catholic University of Venezuela.
The report, entitled “A malicious plan to end democracy,” based its result on the actions carried out in the electoral context by the Government of President Daniel Ortega, who is seeking his third re-election for a fourth consecutive period of five years and a second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president.
“The results compiled allow us to conclude that the legitimizing foundations of a complete electoral process have been systematically violated,” the organizations pointed out in their report.
Actions that reduce “legitimacy” to the process
The study identified as violations of the electoral process the “exclusive manipulation of the electoral roll, judicial persecution of opponents, exclusion of candidacies, illegal use of State resources for proselytizing purposes, and the lack of guarantee of rights and freedoms by the executive power and the electoral authority ”.
The study highlighted that “the electoral authority acts outside the democratic standards of impartiality and transparency”, due to the Sandinista supremacy in the Supreme Electoral Council.
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The cancellation of three opposition parties and the arrest of seven candidates for the PresidencyAccording to the investigation, it shows the use of “illegal and deceptive methods to eliminate all electoral competition”.
The study warned that “there is no access to ways to monitor the financing of political parties, making this factor another opaque source of financing for the ruling FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) and of perks for the collaborationist parties that participate in the elections”.
He also highlighted violations of human rights in the electoral context, such as those “of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly, association and mobilization, disrespecting the principles of non-discrimination and non-intimidation.”
Call to democracies
In this context, the organizations recommended “that democratic governments, international organizations and other relevant international actors use their good offices to demonstrate the lack of legitimacy of origin of the Nicaraguan Executive and Legislative powers”, otherwise “ignore the results ”of the elections.
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They urged Ortega to be convinced of “the suspension or rescheduling of the elections” so that they are held under internationally accepted principles, including observation, as well as “the cessation of repression, full freedom for political prisoners and the guarantee of justice. and repair “, among others.
Ortega has insisted that the electoral process is a matter of “national sovereignty”, and maintains that the international community must stay out of the “internal affairs” of Nicaragua.
More than 4.4 million Nicaraguans are summoned to go to the polls on the first Sunday in November.
The Nicaraguan opposition has insisted that these elections are a “fraud”, and various civil society organizations have announced an “electoral strike”, which consists of not leaving home on election day. (I)
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