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Nicaraguan President Seeks Repeal Of Term Limits

Posted: 07/19/2009
President Daniel ORTEGA joined the group of leaders challenging term limits on Sunday, arguing "re-election should be allowed for all [public officials.]" ORTEGA is a former guerilla leader whose Sandinista Party lost power in 1990. Spearheaded by ruling center-right parties, a 1995 constitution limited Presidents to one term each. Venezuelan President Hugo CHAVEZ secured the repeal of term limits in a referendum earlier this year. Honduran armed forces this month seized power from elected President Jose Manuel ZELAYA after he suggested doing the same. ZELAYA'S critics argue such a referendum would have been unconstitutional.

Source: ElectionGuide

Electoral Authorities in Nicaragua to Review Disputed Mayoral Election

Posted: 11/13/2008
Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) will undertake a review of last Sunday's election for the mayoralty of Managua, the country's capital city, CSE president Roberto RIVAS announced this week. Violent demonstrations have rocked Managua since Monday following allegations of fraud in the ruling Sandinista party victory in the city's mayoral race as well as those in other municipalities around the country. Preliminary results from municipal elections held across the country Sunday indicate that mayoral candidates from the left-wing Sandinista party won races in 94 municipalities, while those from the principal opposition party, the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC), won races in 46. However, the PLC and other groups rejected the results as fraudulent and have called for an international investigation. Among other things, critics argue the poll was marred by the CSE's decision to bar two opposition parties for fielding mayoral candidates and its refusal to permit international and domestic observation groups to monitor the elections, police raids against non-governmental organizations in the month prior to the election, delays in counting ballots, and discrepancies between results certified by election officials and tallies released to the media.  

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Nicaragua poll results disputed

Posted: 11/12/2008
Nicaragua's opposition says local elections which brought big wins for the governing Sandinista Party were fraudulent.

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Ortega back in power in Nicaragua

Posted: 01/10/2007
MANAGUA (Reuters) - Cold War leader Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua on Wednesday, giving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a new ally as he tries to steer Latin America to the left and away from the United States.

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Daniel ORTEGA sworn in as president

Posted: 01/10/2007
Former revolutionary and Sandinista candidate Daniel ORTEGA was sworn in as Nicaragua's president on January 10 following his victory in the November 2006 presidential elections. The final vote tally released by the Nicaraguan Supreme Electoral Council gave him 930,862 votes (37.99%) and a 9-point lead over his closest rival, Eduardo MONTEALEGRE. A candidate of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN), MONTEALEGRE obtained 693,391 votes (28.30%). ORTEGA led a Marxist government between 1979 and 1990, when he was defeated in elections, and unsuccessfully contested the 1996 and 2001 presidential polls.

Source: ElectionGuide

Ortega returns to power

Posted: 11/08/2006
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Nicaragua's former Marxist guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega bounced back to power on Tuesday in a presidential election victory that bolsters an increasingly assertive anti-U.S. bloc in Latin America.

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Ortega wins Nicaraguan election

Posted: 11/07/2006
Nicaragua's ex-Marxist leader, Daniel Ortega, returns to power winning the presidential race with 38% of the vote.

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Ortega wins presidential election

Posted: 11/07/2006
With 91% of votes counted, results from the November 5 general elections indicate a clear victory for former leftist president Daniel ORTEGA and his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party. In the presidential poll, Daniel ORTEGA obtained 38.07% of the vote and a lead of 9.07 points over his next closest rival, Eduardo MONTEALEGRE of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN). This result has ensured ORTEGA a straight victory in the first round, which under Nicaragua's law requires either 40% of the vote or a margin of 35% of the vote combined with a 5-point lead over the nearest rival. José â€™IZO of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC) came in third with 26.21%. In the race for deputies (20 national and 70 departmental/regional), Daniel ORTEGA's FSLN party gained the largest share of votes at 37%. Eduardo MONTEALEGRE's ALN party came in second with 26.7%, and was closely followed by RIZO's PLC party with 26.4%.

Source: ElectionGuide

Ortega leads tense Nicaragua vote count

Posted: 11/06/2006
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary and U.S. Cold War foe, edged toward a dramatic comeback victory in Nicaragua's presidential election, early results showed on Monday.

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The marathon man of Nicaraguan politics

Posted: 09/14/2006
Jonathan Beale in Nicaragua meets the country's former leftist revolutionary leader, Daniel Ortega.

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Nicaragua candidate dies

Posted: 07/02/2006
A Nicaraguan presidential candidate who threatened to split the left-wing vote dies of a heart attack.

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Nicaragua Announces Results of Presidential Election

Posted: 11/09/2001
With 99% of the vote counted, Enrique Bolanos won 56.30% of the vote in Nicaragua's presidential election held November 4, 2001. Daniel Ortega captured 42.28% of the vote.

Source: ElectionGuide

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