Nicaragua, Chaos as Political
Strategy
MANAGUA - Although opposition political
forces against the Sandinista government
have not reach unity for coming elections in
2011 so far, they seem to have a perfect
coordination to destabilize and turn the
country into ungovernable.
The recurrent media controversies on who
could represent the opposition in coming
general elections to try to defeat the
ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front
(FSLN) has been unsuccessful, despite the
unitary procedures by the church and other
political organizations. Those parties and
the so-called civil society have joined to
create chaos and ungovernability.
For instance, the National Assembly, which
formations are not in the majority, has been
almost paralyzed for many months and senator
have only passed one law and one decree from
January until now.
Only few days after Sandinistas reached the
power in 2007, the opposition began to
implement the parliamentary boycott to
hamper the governmental work. The opposition
accused the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE)
of organizing alleged frauds to reach the
FSLN victory in general elections in 2006
and regional elections in 2008.
It also have accused the Supreme Court of
Justice (CSJ), the Office of Comptroller
General of the Republic (CGR), the
Superintendency of Banks and other Financial
Institutions and Attorney's Office on Human
Rights, which the opposition claims to be
controlled by the FSLN.
Parliament has to elect the members of those
institutions, coming from all the parties
for five-year periods and many of them
should be confirmed or replaced many months
ago, but the necessary consensus of 56 votes
has not been reached so far.
In order to prevent the State's standstill,
President Daniel Ortega issued a decree in
January to keep magistrates in their
positions until the General Assembly
replaces or confirm them.
The Opposition considers those magistrates
are violating the law and can be tried,
although they claim to comply with a
presidential decree and the Political
Constitution protects them.
Amid the loss of political unity, the
parliament has not shown signs of resuming
the legislative work in within a short-term
period in order to confirm or elect new
magistrates, or to study and pass new social
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