World Watching Nicaragua Vote
The possibility that Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega recover a 16 year loss of power puts Nicaragua in the center of world news, facing Sunday elections.

There are already 442 foreign journalists that, according to Electoral Supreme Council (CSE) spokesman Felix Navarrete, accredited in Managua.

The New York Times, Le Monde and El Pais have sent their reporters to have first hand news, and nationally speaking, said Navarrete to Prensa Latina, 625 Radio, TV and written media journalists are registered.

The official opinion is that media interest is comparable to 1990, when Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) lost elections to a right wing party coalition.

In order to get power back Ortega must beat the two right wing candidates, Eduardo Montealegre and Jose Rizo, also the left wing economist Edmundo Jarquin and ex guerrilla Eden Pastora, postulated by an evangelical party.

There are 3.6 million people registered to elect the President and Vice-President, the 90 deputies to the National Assembly and the 20 representatives to Centro American Parliament. The CSE calculates of that total, 2.85 million will go actually to the polls.

Electors will have the possibility of voting in the 11,000,274 vote reception boards, which will be opened all over the country the day elections begin and observed by more than a thousand international experts and 16,000 locals.