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Nicaraguan General Election, 2006
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was elected president with 38% of the vote, defeating Eduardo Montealegre ( Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance) with 28%, José Rizo ( Constitutionalist Liberal Party) with 27%, Edmundo Jarquín ( Sandinista Renovation Movement) with 6%, and Edén Pastora ( Alternative for Change) with 0.3%. The FSLN also emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly, winning 38 seats. The election have been characterized as a critical juncture in Nicaragua's history, as Nicaragua has experienced democratic backsliding since Ortega's victory in the election, as Ortega has centralized power and repressed the political opposition. Background Right-wing political parties had dominated Nicaraguan politics since independence in 1838. Following the dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Ortega
José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; ; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician and dictator who has been the president of Nicaragua, co-president of Nicaragua since 18 February 2025, alongside his wife Rosario Murillo. He was the 54th and 58th president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and from 2007 to 2025. He previously led Nicaragua as the first Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1985. Ortega came to prominence with the overthrow and exile of US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 during the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a leader in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (, FSLN) Ortega became leader of the ruling Junta of National Reconstruction. A Marxist–Leninist, Ortega pursued a program of nationalization, land reform, wealth redistribution, and Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign, literacy programs during his first period in office. Ortega's government was responsible for the forced displacement of 10,000 indigenous people. 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative For Change
Alternative for Change ( - AC), formerly known as "Christian Alternative," is a Nicaraguan political party. It was founded by dissidents from the Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path The Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (, CCN) was a Nicaraguan political party founded in 1996 by the Assemblies of God pastor and radio evangelist Guillermo Osorno. CCN participated for the first time in the Nicaraguan general elections in ... (CCN), most notably Orlando Tardencilla. In the 2006 presidential elections, the party fielded Edén Pastora as its presidential candidate, but Pastora only managed to obtain 0.27% of the vote. References External links managua.gob.niel19digital.com Political parties in Nicaragua Christian political parties Protestant political parties Evangelicalism in Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Liberal Party (Nicaragua)
The Independent Liberal Party ( - PLI) is a Nicaraguan political party, which separated from Somoza's Nationalist Liberal Party (PLN) in 1944 and took part in the probably fraudulent election of 1947, won by Somoza's favored candidate. The PLI participated in the 1984 election, winning 9.6% of vote for President with its candidate Virgilio Godoy. In 1990 it was part of the National Opposition Union (UNO) - a broad alliance of Sandinista regime opponents - with Virgilio Godoy running as the vice-presidential candidate. UNO won the elections with 54% of the vote. The UNO alliance split in 1993, and in the 1996 elections the PLI, under the candidature of Virgilio Godoy, suffered its worst electoral debacle, receiving only 0.32% of the vote. It joined with Enrique Bolaños' PLC for the 2001 elections, and was part of Montealegre's Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance in the 2006 elections. During the 2011 presidential election, the party participated as part of an alliance agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Managua
The mayor of Managua is chief executive of the capital city of Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ..., with almost two million residents as of 2018. The mayor is chosen in the quadriennal Nicaraguan general elections. The incumbent is Reyna Rueda of the FSLN. The city's other officials include the deputy mayor and the city council. List of mayors *1940-1941: Hernán Robleto Avilez *1941-1944: José Santos Zelaya Cousin *1944-1945: Carlos G. Zelaya Cousin *1945-1948: General Andrés Murillo Rivas *1948-1950: José Frixione Avilez *1950-1953: General Andres Murillo Rivas *1953-1954: Julio C. Quintana Villanueva *1954-1961: Gustavo Raskosky *1961-1963: Guillermo Lang *1963-1968: Humberto Ramírez Estrada *1968-1970: *1970-1976 Luis Valle Olivares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime boundary, maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of nearly . An estimated people live in the capital and largest city, San José, Costa Rica, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. The sovereign state is a Presidential system, presidential republic. It has a long-standing and stable Constitution of Costa Rica, constitutional democracy and a highly educated workforce. The country spends roughly 6.9% of its budget (2016) on education, compared to a global average of 4.4%. Its economy, once heavily dependent on agriculture, has diversified to include sectors such as finance, corporate services for foreign companies, pharmaceut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Electoral Council (Nicaragua)
The Supreme Electoral Council (, CSE) is the public body responsible for organizing elections in Nicaragua. Roberto Rivas Reyes was president of the CSE from July 2000 until his death in 2022, though as of January 2018, vice-president Lumberto Campbell functioned as acting head of the organization. Campbell was named to the Council by the National Assembly in 2014. Previous presidents of the CSE include Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren (1984 to 1996) and Rosa Marina Zelaya (beginning in the 1990s). Past presidents Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren 2005.jpg, Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren Rosa Marina Zelaya 2018.jpg, Rosa Marina Zelaya Roberto Rivas 2013.jpg, Roberto Rivas Reyes References External linksOfficial website {{Gov-stub Elections in Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-round System
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one or two rounds of choose-one voting, where the voter marks a single favorite candidate in each round. If no one has a majority of votes in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round move on to a second election (a second round of voting). The two-round system is in the family of plurality voting systems that also includes single-round plurality (FPP). Like instant-runoff (ranked-choice) voting and first past the post, it elects one winner. The two-round system first emerged in France and has since become the most common single-winner electoral system worldwide. Despite this, runoff-based rules like the two-round system and RCV have faced criticism from social choice theorists as a result of their suscep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast. For example, if from 100 votes that were cast, 45 were for ''candidate A'', 30 were for ''candidate B'' and 25 were for ''candidate C'', then ''candidate A'' received a plurality of votes but not a majority. In some election contests, the winning candidate or proposition may need only a plurality, depending on the rules of the organization holding the vote. Versus majority In international institutional law, a ''simple majority'' (also a ''plurality'') is the largest number of votes cast (disregarding abstentions) ''among'' alternatives, always true when only two are in the competition. In some circles, a majority means more than half of the total including abstentions. However, in many jurisdictions, a simple majority is defined as more vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Alliance
A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies. Some parliamentary systems allow smaller political parties, who are not numerous enough to form parliamentary groups in their own names, to join with other parties or independent politicians in order to benefit from rights or privileges that are only accorded to formally recognized groups. An electoral alliance, where political parties associate only for elections, is similar to a parliamentary group. A technical group is similar to a parliamentary group but with members of differing ideologies. In contrast, a political faction is a subgroup within a political party and a coalition forms only after elections. Parliamentary groups may elect a parliamentary leader; such leaders are often important political players. Parliamentary groups in some cases use party discipline to control the votes of their me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-party System
A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the ''majority'' or ''governing party'' while the other is the ''minority'' or ''opposition party.'' Around the world, the term is used to refer to one of two kinds of party systems. Both result from Duverger's law, which demonstrates that "winner-take-all" or "first-past-the-post" elections produce two dominant parties over time.Regis PublishingThe US System: Winner Takes All Accessed August 12, 2013, "...Winner-take-all rules trigger a cycle that leads to and strengthens a system of few (two in the US) political parties..." The first type of ''two-party system'' is an arrangement in which all (or nearly all) elected officials belong to one of two major parties. In such systems, minor or third parties rarely win any seats i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberalism In Nicaragua
This article gives an overview of liberalism in Nicaragua. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. For inclusion in this scheme it is not necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party. Introduction The liberal character of the Constitutional Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal Constitucionalista'', former member LI) is disputable. Liberal parties Timeline *1838: The Democratic Party (''Partido Democrático'') was founded. *1893: PD was renamed to Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal''). *1936: PL merged into the authoritarian conservative ⇒ Nationalist Liberal Party. *1944: Dissidents of the PLN formed the Independent Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal Independiente''). *1968: Another dissident faction of PLN formed the Constitutionalist Liberal Movement (''Movimiento Liberal Constitucionalista'') which was later renamed to Constitutionalist Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal Constituci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Nicaragua)
The Democratic Party (, PD), renamed in 1893 as the Liberal Party (, PL), was a Nicaraguan political party in the 19th century. The power base of the liberal Democratic Party was in the city of León; while their conservative counterparts were centered in Granada. The Democrats were opposed to the Legitimists who expelled the Democrats from the constitutional assembly in 1853, driving them underground or into exile, and promulgated a constitution of 1854. The Democrats rejected the constitution and the Legitimist government and fought against it with the help of filibuster William Walker. When José Santos Zelaya came to power in July 1893, the Democratic Party was renamed the Liberal Party. The liberal parties in Nicaragua have their roots in the historical Democratic Party. History Starting in 1838, Nicaraguan politics were split between the Liberal mindset that was centered in León and the opposition—the Conservative mindset—was based in Grenada. In 1909, the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
