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Tearing up the rules; Nicaragua.
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The Economist (US)
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August 16, 2008
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Daniel Ortega bans his foes
THOUGH he has been in office for only 18 months, the opinion polls show that Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president, is deeply unpopular. But he seems to have found a way to deal with his critics. Mr Ortega, of the left-wing Sandinista movement, is insouciantly presiding over an attempt to rig his country's democracy by excluding parties opposed to him.
For this, he can count on the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the supposedly independent electoral authority over which he has great influence. In June it ruled that two smallish opposition parties, the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS), on the moderate left, and the Conservative Party had ...
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