The ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN),
which since 2007 has eliminated virtually all democratic checks and balances by
consolidating single-party control over all four branches of government and
state institutions, will be going for a royal flush in November.
The party controlled by President Daniel Ortega and his
omnipresent wife has stated that it expects to win “by an avalanche” in
essentially every municipality. That prophecy, which will most likely come
true, will be a deathblow to municipal autonomy (or what remains of it) and
fulfill the president’s publically professed dream of converting Nicaragua into
a one-party system.
The opposition fully expects the elections to be farce. The
PLI says it’s participating in the process to document the fraud and to convert
the spectacle into a “platform for rebellion.”
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