Ortega wins Nicaraguan presidency

[helderheid]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Daniel Ortega, the former Sandinista president who ruled Nicaragua during the 1980s, has won the presidency again, electoral observers said Monday.

The leftist Ortega won with 38.49 percent of the vote, reported Ethics and Transparency, an independent electoral firm. His closest competitor, center-right Harvard-educated banker Eduardo Montealegre, garnered 29.52 percent.

Only 15 percent of the ballots have been officially tabulated by Nicaraguan electoral officials.

According to Nicaraguan electoral law, Ortega only needed 35 percent of the vote, plus a 5 percent differential with the next closest candidate to win the presidency outright in the first round.

Thousands of Ortega supports took to the streets early Monday waving flags of his now ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061106-100334-8387r

[Spazito]

1. Hmmm, Negroponte and the bush cabal failed in their attempt

to intimidate and blackmail the Nicaraguan people. There is a sea-change happening and it is NOT in favor of the globalists/corporatists and their sheep, imo.

[NoPasaran]

2. Ortega once again president

Meanwhile, Ollie North is atuck on Fox.

[David__77]

3. North should be in prison.

He's in the lap of luxury, supported by a wealthy right-wing patron. There are so many who owe blood debts to the people of Nicaragua.

Ortega being elected is a good thing. I got my start politically in elementary school, protesting the US aid to the murderous contra scum.

[It was not a pretzel]

5. North was actually in Nicaragua this week

giving anti-Ortega speeches for the conservatives.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. "Has won" or "is predicted to win"?

The post says only 15% of the votes have been counted.

[helderheid]

6. This was the exact wording from the UPI article

[Jack Rabbit]

7. ¡Viav Sandino!

¡Abajo de los bushistas!