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Nicaraguan Rightwing Splits
The Nicaraguan Supreme Election
Council deadline caught the
rightwing still split over the
Nov 5 general elections,
clearing the way for the
Sandinistas.
The US Embassy and local
business circles were unable to
unite the Liberal
Constitutionalist Party (PLC)
and splinter Alianza Liberal
Nicaraguense-Partido Conservador
(ALN-PC).
The division cleared the way for
the FSLN (Sandinista National
Liberation Front), registered as
an alliance within La Gran
Unidad Nicaragua Triunfa, with
10 smaller parties.
The party list also includes the
governing Alianza por la
Republica joining the PLC,
Movimiento Renovador Sandinista
and Alternativa para el Cambio
(Christian).
With the contending parties at
five, the 2006 general elections
will no longer be limited to two
political forces, giving the
FSLN its greatest opportunity in
16 years.
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