RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Nicaraguan presidential aspirant and journalist Cristiana Chamorro Barrios proposed this Friday to choose through a poll a single presidential candidate for the opposition to face Sandinista Daniel Ortega, who is seeking new reelection in the November elections.
“We are on time to put Nicaragua first and achieve unity around a single candidate, selected by all the opposition, registered and not registered, that is not important, but the legitimacy that gives us the popular consensus,” said Chamorro Barrios, daughter of former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997), in a statement.
Cristiana Chamorro. (Photo internet reproduction)
“Ortega has no legitimacy, legitimacy belongs to the people. Let their voice be heard. Let’s use the national polls for that and select the candidate with the greatest popular support to win by a representative and absolute majority”, she advocated in the statement, which she titled “The people
Deputy candidates: the opposition’s taboo
National Coalition has not defined a mechanism for the election of candidates, while this subject “has not been discussed” in the Citizens’ Alliance
5 mayo, 2021
Few dare to talk about it, many see it as a matter for “later”, almost all agree: “at some point we will talk about it”. The deputy candidates are a taboo subject within the main opposition platforms: the National Coalition and the Citizens’ Alliance.
How will the candidates be chosen? It is a question that, six and a half months before the national elections, no opposition leader can answer with certainty. The Coalition is only certain that it does not want a “hand-picked” election, while the Citizens’ Alliance considers it “an unexplored issue”.
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A Health official proclaims to the senior citizens: “Thanks to this government’s political good will, we’ll be giving you the Covishield vaccine.”
On Friday, April 16
th, my wife Desiree and I went to a Health Center in Managua for our first dose of the COVID vaccine. We’re both over sixty, and we’d be receiving the Covishield vaccine, donated to Nicaragua by the government of India.
It was our second attempt. The day before, we’d arrived at 3:00 p.m., an hour before the clinic closes. However, they’d run out of vaccines for the day. The same was true at the German-Nicaraguan Hospital, where we went next, and at the Bertha Calderon Hospital. “More people came today than during the first days,” a health worker explained.