With the presidential election held on the 7th in Nicaragua, a country in Central America, the success of Daniel Ortega’s fourth term as president is almost confirmed, and the US has criticized it.
Voting for the Nicaragua presidential election, held on the 7th, closed at 6 p.m. on the same day, and President Ortega announced his victory.
President Ortega was elected president once from 1985 to 1990, and has been in power since 2007.
First Lady Rosario Murillo, who was also elected as Vice President in 2017, became a running mate this time as well.
After the election, President Ortega insisted that the election, in which the majority of Nicaraguans participated, was a victory over terrorism.
Earlier, the Ortega regime arrested more than 40 opposition figures, including seven prominent presidential candidates, for his victory.
The US has been critical of the Nicaraguan election.
In a statement released today, President Joe Biden accused Ortega and his wife Murillo of conducting a “pantomime election” that was neither free nor fair nor democratic.
In a separate statement released on the 8th, the State Department said in a separate statement that the declaration of the President and his wife Ortega, who announced the victory on the day, had been foreseen, and that such an undemocratic election would not grant them the power to govern democratically.
* This article referenced Reuters.
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