Nicaragua's Ruling Party
Supporters Attack
Opposition Leader In
Demonstration
Managua -
Supporters of
Nicaragua's ruling party
Sunday attacked the
caravan of the
opposition leader
Eduardo Montealegre, who
was heading a protest
march in the western
province of Leon.
Rejecting the results of
the municipal elections
on Nov. 9, the
opposition
Constitutional Liberal
Party (PLC) Sunday
staged a march in Leon
province, 93 km
northwest of the capital
Managua. The
demonstrators clashed
with the supporters of
the ruling party
Sandinista National
Liberation Front (FSLN),
who threw mortars,
stones and bludgeons to
Montealegre's caravan.
Alvaro Salas, the
prosecutor of the sixth
districts of Managua
from the PLC, was
injured. AK-47 rifles
were allegedly heard
fired.
Montealegre criticized
that unknown people
aboard an ambulance shot
at persons accompanied
him.
Transito Tellez, Leon's
governor from the FSLN,
said the supporters of
the Nicaraguan
government were
celebrating the
electoral triumph and
repelled the march.
During the elections,
the FSLN won 103
municipalities of the
146 in dispute. The PLC,
which won 39
municipalities, said
that there were
electoral frauds in
Managua, Leon and other
regions of the country,
where the opposition
does not accept the
defeat.
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