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Weekly Report - 16 June 2016 (WR-16-23)

NICARAGUA: Ortega resorts to familiar tactics

Days after President Daniel Ortega formally launched his presidential re-election bid for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) on 4 June ahead of November’s general elections, the FSLN-controlled supreme court (CSJ) issued a ruling stripping Eduardo Montealegre of the leadership of the Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI), the main party in the Coalición Nacional por la Democracia (CND) opposition coalition. The ruling, which comes on the heels of Ortega’s refusal to allow international observers to oversee the vote [WR-16-20], has triggered fresh democracy concerns ahead of the election.

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