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Nicaragua Faces
Tense Situation
MANAGUA - Nicaraguans are undergoing a tense
situation, after threats to President Daniel
Ortega's government by opposition sectors of
turning to violence to try to reverse a
Supreme Court of Justice decision.
A group of unknown people attacked
Constitutional Court President, Judge
Francisco Rosales on Thursday, throwing eggs
against him, when he was entering the Canal
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Managua.
The situation became more heated when
liberal deputy and ex candidate for
Managua's vice-mayor Enrique Quinones
threatened to go from throwing eggs to
riddling him with bullets, something that
was seen as incitement to violence.
Later, judge Rosales rejected a nullity
appeal lodged against Monday's sentence by
judges of liberal trend, putting forward
that it was inadmissible.
In this reference, the top-level Court
President Manuel Martinez said the nullity
appeal was against the sentence that termed
the constitutional Article 147 inapplicable
and that they were proceeding according to
the law.
However, Rosales asserted that it had to be
presented 24 hour after the sentence was
announced. That is to say on Tuesday
afternoon and not on Thursday.
He clarified that only a clarifying appeal
fits, and it can only be presented by the
people to whom the sentence referred:
President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista
mayors.
In a journalist forum in defense of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our
Americas, the Nicaraguan Social Coordinating
Office said in a communique that the
decision is legally firm and it is a
historic event to Nicaraguans.
The group guaranteed support to the judges,
restoring the people's right to elect freely
their government representatives.
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