In a dictatorship, elections serve as an ornament for the formal validation of the authoritarian government.

The election will be regulated by the 1992 Electoral Law, which allows for emulating elections in a regime where all major political decisions are made by the Communist Party elite.

Today there is no dissent allowed in Nicaragua. For how long this situation can be maintained?

If we take into account Polybius we would know that democracy is not necessarily displaced by autocracy, it is usually transformed into demagogy.

The suppression of qualified electoral observation is a consequence of Nicaragua's democratic decline. The observation missions were among the actors who warned about the progressive evolution of Ortega's offensive.

The government has cancelled more than 950 NGOs, medical and educational associations, social works of the Catholic Church, and social and community development projects that support active citizenship, with the aim of installing a totalitarian regime.