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NICARAGUAN President Daniel Ortega has overwhelmingly won re-election to serve a third consecutive term, the Supreme Electoral Council announced yesterday.
With about two-thirds of the ballots counted in Sunday’s six-candidate presidential race, Mr Ortega had more than 71 per cent of the votes, running in tandem with his wife Rosario Murillo as his vice-presidential candidate.
Emerging with her husband after casting their ballots shortly before the polls closed, Ms Murillo called the vote “an exemplary, historic election.”
Supreme Electoral Council head Roberto Rivas said that 65 per cent of the country’s 3.8 million registered voters had participated in the election, despite an opposition call for a boycott.
The main right-wing opposition movement, the Broad Front for Democracy, claimed that “more than 70 per cent” of voters had not cast ballots.
The president and his Sandinista National Liberation Front have benefited from steady economic growth, social programmes and low levels of violence compared to neighbouring Honduras and El Salvador.
