Nicaraguan Congress passes Ortega-backed reform excluding opposition from elections
The reform would let the Ortega-Murillo government exclude critics from ballots and prolong current officials’ terms by one year, officials said.
- Nicaragua's National Assembly approved a constitutional reform banning opposition members labeled as coup plotters or traitors from elections and extending presidential terms from six to seven years, with support from President Daniel Ortega and co-president Rosario Murillo.
- The reform, viewed as a move to maintain Ortega-Murillo's power amid Ortega's health concerns, must be ratified in a second legislative session in 2027 before taking effect.
- International bodies, including the US, EU, UN, and the Organization of American States, condemned the reform, urging free elections and threatening sanctions against Nicaragua.
- Since 2018, Nicaragua has violently repressed protests, exiled thousands, imprisoned opponents, and repeatedly rewritten its Constitution while Ortega has remained in power.
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After the reform that extends the presidential mandate and cancels the oppositions, Washington reacts with Marco Rubio with measures to isolate the regime from the commercial point of view
The government of Daniel Ortega has just adopted a reform that removes the opponents from the elections.
Lima. The Peruvian government denounced the constitutional reform approved in Nicaragua, promoted by co-president Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, considering that it violates democratic principles and international commitments assumed by the Central American country.
Human rights group calls Nicaragua’s constitutional reforms a ‘usurpation of power’
The Ortega-Murilla regime has approved reforms that bar the opposition from participating in elections, drawing strong opposition from exiled leaders, the United States, Costa Rica and Peru. [...]
Nicaragua Bars Government Opponents From Running for Office, Labels Them 'Traitors to the Homeland'
Organization of American States Secretary General said on Wednesday that the reform "turns the Constitution into another instrument to exclude dissenting voices."
San José. Yesterday the United States called on the international community to break ties with Nicaragua, whose National Assembly approved a constitutional reform that prohibits the opposition from participating in elections and extends the mandate of Daniel Ortega, a measure that aims to secure the presidential succession in the family of the former Sandinista guerrilla octogenarian.
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