LatinNews Daily - 21 August 2017

Nicaragua: The Alianza Unida Nicaragua Triunfa, the political coalition which is headed up by President Daniel Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), has registered its candidates before the supreme electoral court (CSE) ahead of the 5 November municipal elections in which all 153 municipal seats are up for grabs. Controversially, however, the names of the candidates have yet to be made public – including that for the hotly contested mayoral seat for the capital Managua, which in the previous 2012 contest was won convincingly (by 83%) by the FSLN’s Daysi Torres. In the last municipal elections, the FSLN won 134 of the country’s mayoralties, up from 109 in 2008. As in previous recent elections, transparency concerns persist given the FSLN’s control of all of the country’s institutions, including the CSE.

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