Ortega says Nicaragua will hold no more elections

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Sunday that the country will no longer hold elections as a mechanism for the opposition to reach power. "There will be no more elections here for them to try to seize the government, to seize power," he declared during the event marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista uprising that overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, held in Managua.

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