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Nicaraguan human rights activists and opponents considered this Friday “like a fairytale“and”a joke with bad tasteThe new law that will disqualify candidacy for popular election positions for those who applaud the imposition of sanctions on the state and its citizens, who will also be considered “traitors”.
It seems like a line “from a fairy tale,” Nicaraguan human rights activist Juan Carlos Arce told EFE.
For Arce, of the NGO Collective of Human Rights Nicaragua Never Again, the “Law in Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-determination for Peace” is a norm “that could very well appear” in the fantasy novel “Alice in Wonderland, a work by Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of the British mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, published in 1865.
With the inhibition of candidacies to cheer for sanctions, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is revealing “the totally arbitrary calling of his government,” the activist said.
During an extraordinary session, the Sandinista majority came that the National Assembly controls (Parliament) urgently approved a law on Monday that will prevent the candidacy of those Nicaraguans who, among other things, applaud the imposition of sanctions on the state and its citizens.
The United States, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom have individually imposed sanctions on about 20 of those close to Ortega in the context of the socio-political crisis Nicaragua has been experiencing since April 2018, killing hundreds and killing dozens. thousands in exile.
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“It’s bad taste,” said opposition leader Félix Maradiaga, who described it as ridiculous to ban those who applaud the sanctions from running.
And they become the heavyweight (fools) who want to ignore that when the Sandinista Front (for National Liberation, FSLN) and its allies (Anastasio) wanted to overthrow Somoza (Debayle, in 1979), they traveled the world demanding sanctions, because they know fully that sanctions are a method of nonviolent struggle, ”he recalls.
“It is another example of the hypocrisy that characterizes the Sandinistas,” added Maradiaga.
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To activist Arce “it is clear that the dictatorship has already decided to take the premise” from the deceased “commander of the revolution” Tomás Borge, who told the Sandinista militants “that they will remain in power. At any cost. also “.
“Anything can happen unless the Sandinista Front surrenders,” he declared during his lifetime.
“The law of inhibitions is really another outrage against dictator Daniel Ortega,” said opposition leader and businessman Juan Sebastián Chamorro, for whom this rule “is clearly directed against the opposition.”
The Sandinistas claim that this law is based on Article 1 of the Constitution, which refers to the fact that “independence, sovereignty and national self-determination are inalienable rights of the people and the foundations of the Nicaraguan nation”.
Opponents seek to defeat the Sandinistas, led by Ortega, 75, who celebrates 14 consecutive years in his second phase as President of Nicaragua in January, after coordinating a government junta from 1979 to 1985, and the country for the first time from 1985 to 1990 .
Nicaragua plans to hold general elections on November 7, 2021.