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The National Assembly (Parliament) of Nicaragua, controlled by the Sandinistas, approved this Monday in an extraordinary session a law that will veto the candidacies of those Nicaraguans who lead or finance a coup, alter the constitutional order and / or applaud the imposition of sanctions. against the State and its citizens.
The “Law for the defense of the people’s rights to independence, sovereignty and self-determination for peace” was approved urgently with 70 votes by the legislators of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and its allies, promoters of the controversial initiative, with 14 voting against and 5 abstentions.
The opposition deputy Maximino Rodríguez denounced that that law “discriminates against Nicaraguans only because they do not belong to the ruling oligarchy”.
The law, composed of two articles, establishes that “Nicaraguans who lead or finance a coup d’état, who alter the constitutional order, who encourage or encourage terrorist acts, who carry out acts that undermine independence, sovereignty, and self-determination “They will not be able to run for popularly elected positions.
Nor do those who “incite foreign interference in internal affairs, request military interventions, organize themselves with financing from foreign powers to carry out acts of terrorism and destabilization, who propose and manage economic, commercial and financial blockades against the country and their institutions “.
Further, those who demand, exalt and applaud the imposition of sanctions against the State of Nicaragua will be disqualified from running for positions of popular election. and its citizens, and all that injure the supreme interests of the nation contemplated in the legal system “.
The president of Congress, the ruling party Gustavo Porras, defended that law and argued that it is based on Article 1 of the Constitution, which refers to the fact that “independence, sovereignty and national self-determination are inalienable rights of the people and fundamentals of the Nicaraguan nation “.
The head of the FSLN parliamentary group, Edwin Castro, said, for his part, that the law is in accordance with the constitutional legal system, and said that Article 147 of the Political Constitution indicates the prohibition of opting for the presidency of the Republic to any Nicaraguan who leads, or finances a coup d’état, which alters the constitutional order.
Likewise, the Sandinista legislators argued that the criminal legislation indicates that the political rights of Nicaraguans who commit acts contrary to the Political Constitution are limited.
The opposition deputy Maximino Rodríguez warned that this regulation is unconstitutional and “it goes on the primacy of the laws”, because the qualifications to be candidates for positions of popular election are contemplated in the Political Constitution and in the Electoral Law.
“What they have done here, because they have control of the Assembly, is to discriminate against Nicaraguans.”, he reproached.
Likewise, he criticized the expeditious nature with which that law was approved, without having been studied, discussed and ruled in a legislative commission.
Last Friday, the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, said that those Nicaraguans who participated in the revolt against their government in April 2018, which the Executive describes as an “attempted coup,” will not be able to run for popularly elected positions in the next elections..
“We cannot expel them (from Nicaragua) because they were born here,” said Ortega, for whom they have lost their right to run for popularly elected positions in the next elections.
“Nor that they continue fighting to look for candidates for the Presidency, because the laws do not allow it”added.
Nicaragua plans to hold general elections on November 7, 2021.
