Weekly Report - 08 November 2012 (WR-12-44)

The ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) swept all before it in municipal elections staged on 4 November. According to the results released by the supreme electoral council (CSE), the FSLN won as many as 134 of Nicaragua’s 153 mayoralties. It secured the capital Managua, and all but one of the provincial capitals. President Daniel Ortega, who was re-elected with a thumping congressional majority last November, has now completely eviscerated the opposition at all levels of government.

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