Tour in Latin America, the head of the European diplomacy lamented the imprisonment of the opponents of President Daniel Ortega. The latter is on November 7th for a fourth consecutive term.
Le Monde with AFP
The head of the European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said Tuesday, November 2nd that the presidential election of 7 November in Nicaragua would not be legitimate. It will prove the fact that President Daniel Ortega, who represents itself for a fourth consecutive term, imprisoned “all his opponents”.
“We can not expect this process a result that we could consider as legitimate, quite the contrary,” said Borrell since Lima, the first stage of a tour in Latin America.
“The situation in Nicaragua is one of the most serious at this time on the American continent,” he added before the representatives of the foreign press, considering that the ballot only targeted at the “retention of the Dictator “Ortega.
Seven potential candidates behind the bars
By 40 opponents of President Daniel Ortega, in power since 2007, have been arrested in the last five months, including seven potential presidential candidates.
To turn off all rival, Daniel Ortega, 75, relied on laws adopted at the end of 2020, which reduced the opposition to silence.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACH) recently estimated that the position of repression against the opposition did not allow “an honest and free electoral process”.
m. Borrell, who must meet on Tuesday, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, also said that it was necessary to “unite efforts to find a political solution to the situation in Venezuela”.
He despite all hope with the regional and municipal elections of 21 November “to which the whole of the opposition will arise, which was not the case in the preceding legislative elections” of December 2020, A- he estimated.
An electoral mission of the European Union, the first for fifteen years, will visit Venezuela for this ballot. The leader of European diplomacy will be Wednesday in Brazil.
