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Weekly Report - 14 January 2010 (WR-10-02)
NICARAGUA: Ortega deals fresh blow to institutional stability
President Daniel Ortega began the fourth year of his current term by
issuing a decree to extend the mandates of current electoral and judicial
officials. The move is yet another flagrant breach of the constitution (by law
only the legislature is authorised to make the decision) and follows last year's
illegal supreme court (CSJ) ruling overturning the ban on presidential
re-election [WR-09-42].
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