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The other opposition candidates calling for a free election were unable to compete. Concerned to show the adherence of the Nicaraguan people to the ruling marriage, the Supreme Electoral Council ( cse ), in the hands of members of the fsln, falsified the figures of the participation in the elections, as well as those of the votes in favor of the ruling party. According to this body, 65.6% of the voters went to the polls. Ortega and Murillo, as well as their candidates for deputies, would have obtained 75.8% of the votes cast.

Independent observers contradicted Phone Number List estimates and calculated that abstention had been 81.6% and that the fsln candidates , at best, would have only obtained 27% of the votes.2. In 2022, after Ortega y Murillo took office for their new term, the persecution of the opposition began again with greater intensity. The 41 personalities arrested during the months of May and June 2021 were tried and sentenced to long prison terms (between 7 and 13 years) and the loss of civil rights. All their processes were investigated without the defendants having any possibility of organizing their defense. The evidence presented to support the accusations of "money laundering" and "conspiracy against national integrity to the detriment of the State and society" was falsified, sometimes grossly.




Parallel to these processes, measures against the media, private universities, NGOsand religious associations multiplied. 896 were dissolved, their assets were confiscated and some of their leaders, and even their members, were arrested. As a result, the leaders of the political opposition and civil society are now in jail or exile. In January and February 2023, the attacks against the Catholic Church became much more systematic.