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Nicaraguan National Assembly elects a board of directors of the Electoral Council

2021-05-05T22:04:04.826Z


The Nicaraguan National Assembly announced the new members of the Supreme Electoral Council that they will be in charge of carrying out the general elections on November 7.


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The Nicaraguan National Assembly announced the new members of the Supreme Electoral Council - seven regular magistrates and three alternates - who will be in charge of carrying out the general elections on November 7.

Lumberto Campbell Hooker and Mayra Salinas were on the previous board of directors and repeat in the positions, while the other five main magistrates - Brenda Isabel Rocha Chacón, Alma Nubia Baltodano Marcenaro, Devoney Johaira McDavis Alvarez, Leonzo Knight and Cairo Melvin Amador - were proposed by the Sandinista Front, the government party, or by organizations considered as collaborationists both by the National Coalition, which brings together more than 40 NGOs, two political parties and some associations of victims of the protests of April 2018, and by the Citizen Alliance

The elected alternates are: Adriana Marina Molina Fajardo, Maura Lizeth Alvarez Ortiz and Alberto Julián Blandón Baldizón.

"I think it is a very important step in strengthening Nicaragua's institutions," Sandinista deputy José Figueroa told CNN.

The opposition Citizen Alliance, made up of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the Citizens for Freedom party, expressed this Tuesday through a statement: "It is serious that the regime has lost the opportunity to elect electoral magistrates capable of returning the legitimacy of the Electoral Power ».

The big question now is whether the opposition will participate in the November elections.

In 2016 he decided to withdraw from the elections due to lack of guarantees.

The candidate Juan Sebastián Chamorro from his social networks is urging the unity of the two sectors.

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Law reform approved

In the same session, with the favorable vote of 85 deputies from the Sandinista caucus and allies of other parties and 4 votes against, the Parliament approved the reform of Law 331 which, according to its authors, aligns the institution and the electoral process with the national legal framework, technology and gender equity.

But according to opposition deputies, the reform toughens measures such as the cancellation of electoral observation and the prohibition of external financing of party campaigns.

Deputy Jimmy Blandón, from the Constitutional Liberal Party, considers that some of the articles of the law affect the transparency and credibility of the electoral process.

“The issue of electoral observation is not incorporated, the government proposes that it will have some companions.

As an opposition party we want there to be electoral observation by different organizations and other countries, which can send their members and can verify that a process with guarantees is produced for all Nicaraguans.

The reforms approved by the Assembly were rejected by the 10 pre-candidates for the presidency of the republic, and the independent Grupo Promotor de las Reformas Electoral, arguing that by suppressing electoral observation they may inhibit candidates.

A resolution of the Organization of American States of October 21, 2020 establishes May 2021 as a deadline for the approval of electoral reforms that guarantee an observed and participatory electoral process.

According to political analyst Eliseo Nuñez, some contributions to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Electoral Reform that the OAS signed with the Nicaraguan government in 2017 were not taken into account.

“It does not contain, for example, a way to purify the registration of voters in the electoral roll, it does not contain a way to regulate electoral observation, rather it disappears it and is called accompaniment;

Nor do we see the issue of financing because that issue was going to be permanent, prior to and during the process of political parties, rather there is a blockade of foreign financing.

Julie Chung, Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, on Monday urged the Nicaraguan government on Twitter to redirect the country's path towards democracy through electoral reforms.

“The people of Nicaragua know that their electoral process needs reforms to be able to elect their leaders freely and fairly, with transparency and credibility.

President Ortega and his supporters should seize this crucial opportunity to make the electoral system more credible, ”Chung said.

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Source: cnnespanol

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