Daniel Ortega set to win Nicaraguan election denounced as sham
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5RMX7)
Authoritarian leader who has been in power since 2007 on course to secure another five-year term
Nicaragua's authoritarian leaders, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, appeared to have secured another five years in power on Monday in an election that the US president, Joe Biden, condemned as an undemocratic pantomime".
In the early hours of Monday Nicaragua's supreme electoral council said Ortega, a one-time revolutionary icon who has governed continuously since 2007, had received 75% of votes, with about half of the 1.3m ballots counted.
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