Nicaraguan
President Wants To Run For Re-Election
(AP) Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says
he would like to run for re-election and
change the constitution to allow voters to
put him in office as many times as they
want.
Nicaragua's constitution doesn't allow for
immediate re-election and bans anyone who
has served as president for two terms to run
again.
Ortega told Al-Jazeera's David Frost that
"those obstacles shouldn't exist."
Ortega, whose first government fought
U.S.-backed rebels in the 1980s, returned to
power in 2006 elections.
Lawmakers of Ortega's Sandinista Party have
said they plan to propose a constitutional
amendment that would allow him to run for
another consecutive term.
Ortega made his comments to the Arab news
channel Al-Jazeera on Friday.
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