Nicaraguan police detain former beauty queen aiming to contest elections swissinfo.ch - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swissinfo.ch Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nicaragua President Ortega to stand for reelection
Issued on:
03/08/2021 - 01:02 Nicaragua s President Daniel Ortega (R) is to run for a fourth consecutive term in Novemeber s elections, with his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, once again as his running mate Maynor Valenzuela AFP/File 3 min
Managua (AFP)
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is to stand for a fourth consecutive term in November s general election, his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party said on Monday. We have our formula, our candidates were elected unanimously, said Gustavo Porras, an FSLN legislator, during the party congress.
Ortega s wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, will again be his running mate.
EU sanctions 8 Nicaraguan officials amid wide-reaching crackdown aljazeera.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aljazeera.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The opposition ticket, Oscar Sobalvarro and Berenice Quezada
The main opposition alliance in Nicaragua named a former right-wing guerrilla and a beauty queen as its candidates for the coming presidential election in November. The Citizens Alliance for Liberty, CXL, nominated Oscar Sobalvarro, 68 as president hopeful and ex-Miss Nicaragua 2017, Berenice Quezada, 27 to complete the ticket.
Sobalvarro is a former leader of the right wing guerrilla groups Contras, which were supported by the United States in their fight against the Marxist oriented Sandinistas governments of Daniel Ortega.
That painful war, among brothers, could have been avoided if the Sandinistas had kept their promise of democracy in 1979, when the downfall of longtime dictator Anastasio Somoza, and had allowed free elections, said the opposition contender