The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, stated this Monday that “there will be no more elections” in the country and announced that he will push for legal changes to prevent the opposition from returning to power.
During the commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, the president stated that opposition sectors seek to access the government to benefit from public resources.
“They already wanted to hide, they would like to win elections to make schools real. Forget it, there will be no more elections here,” he said.
Ortega, who has governed Nicaragua since 2007 along with his wife and co-president, Rosario Murillo, insisted that he will not allow the opposition to contest power through the ballot box again.
“There will be no more elections for them to try to capture the government, capture power,” he said.
In that vein, he announced that he will work with the National Assembly and other organizations to promote legal modifications that prevent the return of his political adversaries.
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“We have to make laws that put a wall, a block to the coup plotters, to the traitors,” he said, while assuring that these rules will prevent the opposition from reaching the Executive “no matter how much money the Yankees give them.”
Likewise, he accused the opposition of continuing to organize political parties with the aim of recovering the government through elections.
“And here ends the story that the parties put in place by the Yankees, put in place by the Somocistas will return to government: Never, never, never,” he concluded.
Ortega, 80 years old, was part of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the organization that overthrew the Somoza family dictatorship in 1979. After a first period in power between 1979 and 1990, he returned to the Presidency in 2007 and has remained at the head of the government since then. His wife, Rosario Murillo, currently serves as co-president, a position created after the constitutional reform that eliminated the vice presidency.
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