Nicaraguan president lashes EU ‘Nazis’ after contested poll victory
Daniel Ortega won more than 75% of the vote in an election where several potential opponents had been jailed.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s democracies condemned as a sham election.
Nicaragua’s supreme electoral council said that with nearly all the ballots counted, Mr Ortega had won more than 75% of the vote.
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