Nicaragua's Congress passes Ortega-backed electoral reform barring opposition

Opposition members and supporters face exclusion from democratic participation and potential political persecution.

In Managua, Nicaragua's Congress has formalized what years of arrests and disqualifications had already made plain: that electoral competition, as a living institution, is no longer permitted. President Daniel Ortega, who has shaped Nicaraguan political life for nearly two decades, now governs a system where the law itself bars opposition from the ballot — transforming elections from a contest of wills into a ritual of confirmation. This moment belongs to a longer human story about how democracies do not always fall suddenly, but are instead dismantled piece by piece, each step clothed in lega

Nicaragua's Congress passes Ortega-backed electoral reform barring opposition

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