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Weekly Report - 28 June 2005
NICARAGUA: Bolaños accepts early elections - with conditions
President Enrique Bolaños has said that 'if necessary' he would be willing to cut short his mandate and hold early elections - which is what Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega had proposed days earlier - but then went on to lay down a series of conditions which seem designed to ensure that the opposition will reject his overtures, at least on his terms.
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