Nicaragua: 55%
Disapprove of Ortega's
First Year
President Daniel Ortega
has lost support in his
first year back in
office and is
increasingly seen as
authoritarian, according
to a poll published
Wednesday.
Ortega's disapproval
rating rose more than 18
percentage points, from
36.4 percent in April to
54.6 percent in
December, according to
an M&R Consultores poll
published in the daily
La Prensa.
The poll interviewed
1,600 people from Dec.
26 to 30 and had a
margin of error of 2.5
percentage points.
Twenty-one percent said
they support him.
Ortega, who took office
last January, led
Nicaragua throughout the
1980s after his
Sandinista rebel
movement pushed out
dictator Anastasio
Somoza.
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