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Nicaragua's governmental functions continue to be stalled, seemingly impervious to attempts by national and international parties to blow the logjam. The Sandinista-controlled legislature has had the presidency in check for many months, calling for the removal of President Enrique Bolanos or, failing that, limiting his powers through constitutional reforms. The latest maneuver has Frente Sandinista para la Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) leader Daniel Ortega seeking to move up general elections one year to Nov. 5, 2005, while simultaneously convoking a Constitutional Assembly to redefine the country's political system. Ex-President Ortega (1979-1990) is also his party's presidential candidate.
Ortega told some 5,000 Sandinistas, "If he were to resign along with his vice president, as I did in 1990, the president would be contributing to the solution of the country's problems." These remarks came on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the FSLN Tactical Retreat in 1979. Ortega first proposed advancing the elections during a...
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