The relative revision of the Constitution has been ratified by the country’s parliament – his wife and Vice President Mourilo becomes a “co -chair”
The Nicaraguan Parliament announced yesterday that there was a revision of the Constitution that gives absolute power to the state mechanism and civil society to Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Mourilo, the president and the “co -chair” America.
The text that was ratified yesterday also predicts that his wife and Vice President Mourilo becomes a “co -chair”, alongside her husband Daniel Ortega.
In addition, it is stipulated that the presidential election will take place every six years, from five until now.
The two leaders will coordinate “legislative, judicial, electoral” bodies, as well as the institutions that manage provinces and municipalities, while their previous constitution considered independent.
The reform also characterizes Nicaragua as a “revolutionary” and “socialist” state and includes in national symbols the red and black flag of the FSLN of the former Sandinist, guerrillas under the leadership of Daniel Ortega who overthrew the 1979 dictatorship in 1979.
The revision of the fundamental law “was approved in the whole”, the Nicaragua parliament announced via X.
The review was adopted by the House in November and there was no doubt that it would be ratified, as the ruling Santinist Front of National Liberation (FSLN) was dominated by the House.
This was the last step before it came into force.
‘Deep concern’ by the UN
Daniel Ortega, a 79 -year -old guerrilla leader, who initially ruled Nicaragua in the 1980 years, after the triumph of the Santinist revolution, and returned to power in 2007, has already revised more than ten times the Constitution, acquiring the opportunity in particular. to remain in the presidency for an unlimited number of terms.
The United Nations Central America Regional Office of the UNHCR has announced in a statement its “deep concern” over the revision of the Constitution in Nicaragua, judging that it is exacerbated by “back -ups for civil and political freedoms”.
These “drastic changes” imply the “destruction of the rule of law” and the appeal of “fundamental liberties in Nicaragua (…) Ortega and Mourilio establish and establish their absolute power,” the US Bureau told the French Bureau. Member of the UN expert for Nicaragua.
Source :Skai
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