REACTION: Daniel Ortega Says No More Elections in Nicaragua – AS/COA

By AQ Editors The country was scheduled to hold general elections in November 2027. Earlier this week, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the country will no longer hold elections, effectively eliminating the possibility of the opposition coming to power. The 80-year-old Sandinista leader has governed Nicaragua without interruption since 2007 and, in 2025, appointed his wife, Rosario Murillo, to be his co-president. Speaking during the commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in Managua, Ortega said that the Sandinista-controlled National Assembly would pass legislation creating what he called “a wall, a blockade” against political… Read this article on the Americas Quarterly website. | Subscribe to AQ.
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