Friday 28November
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Tension
in Nicaragua Legislature
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Tension
in Nicaragua Legislature
Managua -The Nicaraguan
Parliament is divided
Thursday over a bill
from the opposition to
annul the recent
municipal elections,
which the governing
Sandinistas say is
illegal.
"I want to state clearly
that the National
Assembly has no
faculties to comment on
electoral matters,"
president of that
legislative power,
Daniel Nunez, from the
governing Sandinista
Front for National
Liberation (FSLN), said
some days ago.
The parliamentary leader
warned that the country
will not notify the
parliamentary executive
board, while legislators
from the
Constitutionalist
Liberal Party (PLC)
insist on including the
electoral issue in the
legislative agenda.
The Liberal initiative
has also been defined by
experts in
constitutional affairs,
as Supreme Electoral
Court (CSE) Judge Rafael
Solis, as "nonsense."
PLC deputies also resist
all arguments against
them, and painstakingly
seek the 47 votes the
need to annul the
November 9 elections, in
which the FSLN won 105
of 146 mayor's offices
in dispute.
According to the main
Nicaraguan opposition
party, arguing an
alleged massive fraud by
the CSE to favor the
Sandinistas, there are
some precedents that the
National Assembly has
approved an ordinary
bill with constitutional
reach.
The single-chamber
parliament is paralyzed,
when the 2009 general
budget and other laws
that include outlays and
credits valued at $93
million have not been
approved, Sandinista
legislator Walmaro
Gutierrez stated. |
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