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About 70% Nicaraguans Reject Presidential
Election: Poll
MANAGUA - About 70 percent of Nicaraguans do
not agree with the successive presidential
election, neither with the reelection of
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega nor that
he continues one more term, a poll said
Friday.
According to the poll by the Nicaraguan M&R
Consultores poll maker, 68.3 percent of the
800 respondents across the country do not
agree with the immediate presidential
reelection or the continuation of Ortega in
power after 2012, when his term will finish.
On Oct. 19, six Nicaraguan magistrates from
the Supreme Court of Justice issued a
sentence in favor of the reelection, giving
Ortega and 109 mayors the possibility of
being reelected.
Most of the Nicaraguans think that the
presidential reelection "tends to weaken
democracy and to restore a dictatorship,"
only 23.6 percent thinks that the reelection
"contributes to strengthening democracy,"
and 8.1 percent said they do not know about
the issue, according to the pool.
Also 71.3 percent of the respondents think
Ortega does not "deserve" to continue
another presidential term, while 24.6
percent thinks the contrary, and 4.1 percent
said they do not know.
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