After an electoral campaign without rallies, demonstrations or even real opposition, Nicaragua’s governing party qs hoping to expand Sunday on the 141 of Nicaragua’s 153 municipalities that it already controls.
President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front is so dominant it is approaching single-party status in Nicaragua. In the past two years, some opposition parties have been cancelled altogether and their candidates jailed. In July, police ousted five opposition mayors who belonged to a party disbanded by electoral authorities and replaced them with allies.
The level of mistrust in the elections and available candidates is such that “people don’t even talk about the elections,” said an accountant who works in Managua and requested anonymity to avoid reprisals. The governing Sandinistas lead an alliance made up of eight parties, as well as Indigenous and religious movements supportive of the ruling party called “United Nicaragua Triumphs.”
At the same time, the government decreed that people with expired identification documents will be allowed to vote.
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