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The Nicaraguan government has submitted to Congress a proposal for constitutional reform aimed at subordinating other government branches to the executive branch. exercise stricter control over the media
The Nicaraguan government has submitted to Congress a proposal for constitutional reform aimed at subordinating other government branches to the executive branch. exercise stricter control over the media and extend the presidential termamong other controversial measures that could be approved this week.
The proposal was presented to the National Assembly (Congress), which is dominated by the ruling party, and was classified as “modernization of the Magna Carta” President of the Legislative Assembly Gustavo Porras.
“The people exercise the power of the state through the President of the Republic, who directs the government and coordinates the legislative, judicial, electoral and control bodies of state administration and supervision, as well as the autonomous entities,” the draft says.
Porras explained that a parliamentary commission will begin work on the proposal on Wednesday afternoon and must prepare an opinion on Thursday in order for it to be approved on Friday.
The initiative stipulates that “the state will ensure that the media are not subservient to foreign interests and do not spread false news.” Since 2020, the country has a law that punishes the spread of “fake news” with up to ten years in prison.
In addition, it authorizes the Presidency to “order the intervention of the Nicaraguan Army in support of the National Police when the stability of the Republic requires it,” and authorizes police and military personnel to “temporarily hold positions in the executive branch.”
It also formally creates the Volunteer Police, which arose in response to the 2018 social protests against President Daniel Ortega that left more than 300 people dead, and was composed largely of former Sandinista soldiers who fought the Contras during the Nicaraguan Revolution ( 1979). – 1990).
Another relevant change is the introduction of the figures “co-president” and “co-president”, as well as an increase to six years from the five terms of the presidential term and the terms of office of deputies of the National Assembly.
Ortega, 79, has repeatedly said that the vice president, his wife Rosario Murillo, enjoys the same power as he does at the head of the executive branch.
After the content of the constitutional reform was made public, opposition layers and civil organizations rejected it because they considered it a concentration of power.
“The dictatorship of Ortega Murillo is burying institutions in #Nicaragua through reform of the Constitution, eliminating the separation of powers of the state and leaving them under the coordination of a two-headed dictatorship,” said X Nicaraguan Democratic Union, a coalition of exiled opponents.
The Inter-American Legal Assistance Center for Human Rights (CALIDH), another organization in exile, described the reforms as “an irreversible distortion of the constitutional text” that “raises to constitutional rank the absolute distortion to which (Daniel Ortega) has subjected the state.” (Reuters).
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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