After an electoral campaign without rallies, demonstrations or even real opposition, Nicaragua’s governing party qs hoping to expand Sunday on the 141 of Nicaragua’s 153 municipalities that it already controls.
President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front is so dominant it is approaching single-party status in Nicaragua. In the past two years, some opposition parties have been cancelled altogether and their candidates jailed. In July, police ousted five opposition mayors who belonged to a party disbanded by electoral authorities and replaced them with allies.
