According to the report read by the president of the CSE, Brenda Rocha, in second place was the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC), the deputy Walter Martinez, with 14.4% of the votes. Third was the priest Guillermo Osorno, of the Nicaraguan Christian Way (CCN), with 3.44% of the votes. In the controversial elections there was no real competition, Ortega’s detractors point out, since seven opposition candidates are currently detained.
More of 4.4 million Nicaraguans were eligible to elect their president and vice president, 90 deputies before the National Assembly and 20 before the Central American Parliament (Parlacen). According to the electoral body, 65.34% of Nicaraguans eligible to vote participated on election day. However, the independent multidisciplinary observatory Urnas Abiertas established abstention at 81.5%.
With 14 years in power, this is the fourth consecutive term, Ortega is accused by his critics and opponents of “nepotism” and of establishing a dictatorship, while the ex-guerrilla assures that his government belongs to the “people” and defends the sovereignty of his country from the “attacks” of the United States, whose president Joe Biden described as “farce” to yesterday’s elections, the AFP news agency reported.
In addition to Biden yesterday, today the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, described the Nicaraguan elections as “a mockery of the Nicaraguan people, a mockery of the international community and above all a mockery of democracy.”
Source From: Ambito
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