The first hours of Nicaragua’s municipal elections this Sunday passed without incident, according to the authorities, underscoring the speed at which votes are being cast.
We have seen the influx in all voting centers and we hope that this will continue this Citizens’ Day, in these sovereign municipal elections, President of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) Brenda Rocha said after casting her vote in Managua.
Queues formed early in the morning to exercise voting rights and waited for their respective voting booths to open.
Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, one of the Nicaraguans who came first in the morning to cast his ballot, commented: “It is already a tradition for Nicaraguans (…) to get up early in the morning to queue like we are queuing here.”
“Elect the municipal authorities, which is the continuation of the real strengthening of the electoral institutions, in a people’s democracy, a revolutionary democracy that elects its authorities in complete freedom, in peace and tranquility, to have exactly what the Nicaraguan people decide.” , he assured.