RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL), considered by some as the only non-collaborationist party in Nicaragua’s electoral race, defined this Tuesday the former head of the Nicaraguan Resistance Oscar Sobalvarro as its candidate for the Presidency, in a controversial decision.
“The candidacy of Oscar Sobalvarro is accepted (…), there is no rejection”, said the president of CxL, Carmela Rogers, known as Kitty Monterrey, in a press conference in which she confirmed that the selection of the ex-guerrilla was sudden and did not comply with the pre-established parameters.
Sobalvarro will be the one to compete with President Daniel Ortega in the elections of next November 7, in the absence of his candidacy being ratified tomorrow in a CxL convention in Managua, which will be attended by some previously selected people, for security reasons, according to what Rogers said.