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Weekly Report - 3 March 2011 (WR-11-09)
NICARAGUA: Ortega's presidential candidacy officially declared
“A date that will go down in history as a day of shame and rage".
This was the response by leading dissident Sandinistas Henry “Modesto" Ruiz and
Dora María Téllez to the 26 February announcement by the ruling Frente
Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) that it was officially nominating
President Daniel Ortega as its presidential candidate ahead of the November 2011
general elections, despite the constitutional ban on his candidacy. With
Ortega's perceived authoritarianism once again suggested in his dubious
endorsement of 'fellow revolutionary' Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
last week, the state of democracy in Nicaragua has fast become the driving
electoral issue ahead of the November vote. The choice is being presented not in
terms of differences of ideology but rather between “democracy" and
“autocracy".
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