With most of the opposition candidates in jail, the president looks set to win another term.
Daniel Ortega and his wife and running mate Rosario Murillo are standing for another term
He has governed the Central American nation for over half of the more than four decades since Nicaragua's 1979 Revolution that toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza. A number of other, little-known presidential candidates will also be on the ballot but are unlikely to attract many votes. Some voters may heed opposition calls for a boycott of the elections. Opposition civil society organisations and student groups have called for an "electoral strike".
The barred opposition contenders and detained opponents have been regularly portrayed by the government narrative as US-backed "terrorists" seeking to sow "hatred" and disorder.Nicaraguans living in neighbouring Costa Rica have denounced the election as not being free
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