Nicaragua Eliminates the Figure of Vice President and Creates the Figure of “Presidential Appointees”
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The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved in the first legislature the amendment amending article 126 of the Constitution. Opposition leader Félix Maradiaga criticized the decision, claiming that it seeks “a dynastic succession.”
The parliament controlled by the co-presidential couple liquidates the vice presidency to create the “presidential appointees”, an ambiguous formula that analysts read as an attempt to shield the family control of power
Nicaragua had not been vice president for 20 months.
The National Assembly of Nicaragua unanimously approved, on Thursday, 22, a constitutional reform that ends with the office of vice-president and replaces it with the function of presidential appointees. The names will be chosen by the couple of dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, who holds the Presidency under co-chairmanship. The proposal needs a...
Ortega approves constitutional reform that creates positions of presidential appointees and generates complaints of preparation of family succession.
The National Assembly of Nicaragua, controlled by the ruling party, unanimously approved on Thursday, October 22, in the first legislature, a constitutional reform that eliminates the figure of vice president of the Republic and establishes that of presidential appointees. The amendment to article 126 of the Constitution will allow the co-chairs...
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