Nicaragua opposition candidate calls Ortega win 'fraud'

BBC - The opposition candidate in Sunday's presidential poll in Nicaragua has rejected the victory of the incumbent President, Daniel Ortega.  Read more

Nicaragua's Disputed Election Result

Americas Quarterly - Fabio Gadea announced on Monday that he would not recognize the election results published by Nicaragua's Consejo Supremo Electoral (Supreme Electoral Council—CSE), declaring the results part of a "fraud." The CSE, which should be an independent ...  Read more

Nicaragua's election day arrives amid tension, violence

Monsters and Critics.com  Managua - Nicaraguans prepared to vote Sunday, as protests over alleged mismanagement of the election erupted into violence, even before polls had opened.  Local media reported that supporters of the opposition alliance PLI-UNE, who hope to unseat President Daniel Ortega in the vote, fought with Ortega sympathizers Saturday in at least three municipalities in the northern provinces of Matagalpa and Nuevo Segovia.  Read more

Why Nicaragua is ready to re-elect Daniel Ortega

BBC News

BBC News - By Tim Rogers. For some 30 years, Daniel Ortega and his erstwhile Sandinista revolutionaries have been loathed by Nicaragua's traditional economic elite. But with presidential elections due on 6 November, there appears to be only one thing some business leaders fear more than an Ortega re-election victory and that is an Ortega defeat....  Read more

Factbox: Nicaragua's main presidential candidates

(Reuters) - Following are profiles of the main candidates:

FABIO GADEA

The 79-year-old Gadea is a veteran radio personality backed by the Liberal Independent Party, an alliance of right-wing groups and dissident Sandinistas.  Gadea has pledged to deliver a "revolution in honesty," and more investment as well as continuing the fight against poverty and maintaining the government's health and education programs.  "This is my dream for these five years of government; that God give me the last years of my life to surround myself with young people and teach them," he said in a recent interview with Reuters. "I am a man who's going to turn 80, there's not much left for me to do."  Read more

NICARAGUA 6 Nov 2011 Presidential, legislative elections held

newsahead.com - Nicaragua's presidential poll pits President Daniel Ortega, a former revolutionary comandante, against Fabio Gadea, the leading opposition candidate from the Independent Liberal Party, in Ortega's bid for a controversial and unprecedented third term. Ortega, the candidate of the ruling left-wing Sandinista Front, is leading in the polls. Nicaragua will also hold an election for its 92-seat unicameral legislature.

His run was hotly contested because he is the first Nicaraguan president to seek a third term. A Sandinista-controlled division of the Supreme Court ruled in Oct 2009 that the reelection ban doesn't apply to Ortega.  Read more