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.

A man walks past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (Andres Nunes/AP)

By Associated Press Reporter

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.