FMLN will control the nica legislature

The electoral authorities handed over yesterday Monday the credentials of the new members of the National Assembly in which the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) Government has an overwhelming majority to approve any reform constitutional for newly re-elected President Daniel Ortega.

90 Deputies received credentials from the President of the Supreme Electoral Council, Roberto Rivas, and immediately the legislators of the opposition independent Liberal Party (PLI) withdrew from the event in protest because they were not taken into account in the new Board of Directors.

No to fraud!
Members of the PLI forcejearon with Sandinista peers when they attempted to deploy a banner that read "No to fraud!" No to dictatorship! ", in reference to complaints of alleged fraud in the elections of November

A few blocks from the building where the legislative session, a group of young people was conducted u000aof the movement of the Encachimbados (upset) protested against the new members to claim that they won their seats through fraud.

The group other members were young movement Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the citizen's resistance network and of the sons of Nicaragua.

The FSLN has 62 members, the PLI has 26 and the once mighty party Liberal Constitutionalist (PLC) of former President Arnoldo Alemán, two.

Two legislators of the PLC joined the majority of the FSLN to vote for the new Board of Directors, whose leader must juramentar today Tuesday at Ortega, who assumes a new period presidential in the Central American nation, the third hit by sandinista voting leader.

The candidacy of Ortega in the November elections was severely criticized by the opposition which argues passed over a constitutional provision that prohibited immediate re-election.

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