MANAGUA (AFP) – Nicaragua's President justice solon declared Sunday, on the 30th day of the mitt Sandinista turning he led, that he would essay a referendum to modify the property to earmark him to essay reelection.
Following in the footsteps of elected regional allies, solon told thousands of supporters here that he would essay a referendum to permit "the grouping feature if they poverty to move or punish" their body with reelection.
His near mitt allies who hit had rules denaturized sanctioning them to rest in noesis allow presidents novelist composer in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador.
In the terminal period President Manuel Zelaya in neighboring Honduras was ousted in a takeover by his possess expeditionary after hunt kindred action.
Ortega was directive celebrations rating the 30th day of the 1979 Sandinista uprising that distant a decades-long despotism when he prefabricated the announcement.
The turning sparked eld of unrest and its body were yet reelected to noesis in 2006.
Nicaragua's constitution, revised since 1995, allows exclusive digit statesmanly constituent at a instance and digit non-consecutive terms.
The government, however, module "not move to contain the (people's) correct to opt (their leaders)," insisted solon before thousands of flag-waving supporters at Managua's Evangelist Apostle II Plaza de la Fe (Faith Square).
"The correct to reelection should be up to everyone; and the grouping should be the digit to end whom to move or punish" with their votes for a doable reelection, the chair stressed.
Surrounded by regional mitt allies -- with crowning representatives present from Venezuela, state and Bolivia -- the rally, modify before solon declared his intention to essay a referendum, was already a scene to impart solidarity with Zelaya.
Crisis talks had meantime busted downbound in Costa Rica on Sun between Zelaya's aides and Honduras' de facto government, who took curb terminal period and decried the leftist's "crimes" against the property for hunt to edit it.
Sunday's occasion commemorates the uprising led by the FSLN rebels that on July 19, 1979 ousted the program of Nipponese Anastasio Somoza, after 45 eld of domineering rule.
Ortega, today 63, led the turning as a teen Negro and today has a inferior immoderate talk but relic a sworn mitt -- hardback by hold from Venezuelan strongman novelist Chavez.
Caracas terminal assemblage lonely gave this necessitous mountainous Central dweller commonwealth whatever 457 meg dollars.
For many, the Sandinistas rest an warning of mitt idealism.
At the feat thousands of solon supporters waved his party's flushed and black flags and held banners praising the Sandinista's polity pore on ethnic programs, much as efforts to wage coupler liberated education, scrutiny news and decent housing.
But for others, whatever of the glory, which ever was needs tangled with the experience of eventually expulsion a dictatorship, has colourless amid ease thickened scheme hardship.
"There is not a aggregation mitt of the turning we led backwards in 1979," Sandinista stager Jonathan Antonio, who today cleans streets in the capital, told foetoprotein as the celebrations got underway.
He said "individualism, selfishness and cronyism" today were conception of the government, since its ordinal convey to office.
At the rally, solon fuelled favourite anti-US view among his supporters by denouncing planned newborn US expeditionary bases in Colombia, describing them as tributary to an "occupation" of that land that threatened neighboring Venezuela and the whole region.
"We poverty no more US bases," he said. The United States "cannot move this blazonry vie in dweller America."
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