Nicaragua’s congress announces ‘work plan’ to suspend elections
US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regime Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by the country’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has announced a “work plan” to implement the authoritarian...
Nicaragua’s congress has announced a “work plan” to carry out President Daniel Ortega’s order that the country should stop holding elections, according to a monitored public feed based on reporting from The Guardian World.
The announcement follows an earlier statement by Ortega, whose government has drawn sharp criticism from the United Nations and the United States. In a reaction cited in the feed, the US secretary of state said the international community should “join forces” against what he described as the authoritarian Ortega regime.
Ortega has been in power since 2007. Last year, a controversial constitutional change altered the country’s political structure and positioned Ortega to govern alongside his wife, Rosario Murillo, as “co-president,” the feed summary said.
The move to suspend elections marks another significant escalation in Nicaragua’s political overhaul under Ortega’s administration. The congress is controlled by Ortega’s allies, according to the feed, making the “work plan” a formal step toward implementing the president’s directive.
The UN and the US both strongly condemned the announcement made on Sunday, the feed reported. No additional details were included in the monitored summary about the timeline for the suspension, the scope of the proposed changes, or how the measure would be enforced.
Based on a monitored public feed, the report reflects the latest information available in the summary from The Guardian World. Source attribution: The Guardian World.
Source: The Guardian World - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/nicaragua-daniel-ortega-congress-work-plan-suspend-elections
