The Ortega regime has demanded the disqualification of Cristiana Chamorro, the opponent with the highest probability of winning the presidential elections

The Nicaraguan public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday accused the opposition candidate for the Christian presidency María Chamorro Barrios, daughter of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997), for the offenses of abusive management, ideological lying, both in real competition with money, laundering of property and assets.

The prosecution of the Sandinista regime also demanded the dismissal of Chamorro Barrios from the civil service, the opposition figure most likely to win the November election, in which dictator Daniel Ortega is seeking a new re-election, according to a poll by CID Gallup, “Not to be in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights because they are in criminal proceedings.”

In addition, the public prosecutor proceeded with the request for provisional immigration detention measures in order, as indicated, to prevent him from evading the process of investigation carried out against him.

More, called for Chamorro Barrios to be banned from attending certain meetings and venues, and from communicating with persons related to the events under investigation.

ALSO TO THE UNIVISION CORRESPONDENT

These same protective measures, with the exception of the forfeiture of public office, were requested against the correspondent of the Hispanic network Univision in Nicaragua, María Lilly Delgado Talavera, and journalists María Lourdes Arróliga Vanegas and Guillermo José Medrano, former employees of the NGO Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.

For the moment, the prosecution has not accused these three communicators.

The prosecutor’s office said “that the process continues for the crime of laundering money, property, assets and others” for which the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation is under investigation, which took end last February.

“The prosecution will continue to conduct all investigative procedures necessary to clarify the facts. We have called and will continue to call all these people who appear as beneficiaries “ through this NGO, he moved forward.

According to the regime’s Interior Ministry, this NGO, dedicated to the protection and promotion of the freedom of the press and of expression, “has seriously failed in its obligations before the Regulatory Body, and according to the analysis of the financial statements, period 2015-2019, obtained clear indications of money laundering ”, for this reason“ the public prosecutor was informed (to open) the corresponding investigation ”.

In this case, the prosecution of the Ortega regime called about twenty journalists to testify, including the owner of the popular radio station La Corporación and former presidential candidate, the nonagenarian Fabio Gadea, and the co-owner of the 100% Verónica channel. Chávez News.

Also to the writer, novelist and former vice-president of Nicaragua Sergio Ramírez Mercado in his capacity as legal representative of the NGO Fundación Luisa Mercado, which maintained relations with the Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.

For a few days Chamorro, He had warned that he risked being excluded from the November elections after the accusation of money laundering promoted by the Ortega regime.

Chamorro, 67, rejects these accusations and seeks the unity of the opposition to defeat Ortega at the polls, as his mother Violeta had done at the head of a coalition in 1990.

“I was born into a home linked to independent journalism and opposed to any kind of dictatorship, oppression or corruption. At that time, he was against the dictatorship of Somoza (which ruled from 1937 until the triumph of the revolution in 1979). My decision to say yes to Nicaragua and to serve the people was born precisely because of the construction of another dictatorship, which is that of Ortega “, said in an interview with the agency AFP.

“The people have spoken enough of the dictatorships again, as they did when Somoza, later against the Sandinistas in [las elecciones de] 1990. And in 2018, the population spontaneously took to the streets to protest and demand free elections… and early elections. Ortega’s response was to shoot to kill the protesters. Since then, Nicaragua has experienced a de facto state of siege, ”he added.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

KEEP READING: