Managua – Nicaragua approved a constitutional reform that eliminates double nationality, So Nicaraguans who acquire another citizen Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The Sandinista dictatorship of the husbands Ortega and Murillo has stripped of nationality Nicaraguan to hundreds of opponents and critics expelled from the country in recent years.
The National Assembly pointed out in the X network that during a “special session”, carried out in the town of Niquinohomo, approved “unanimously” a “partial reform” to articles 23 and 25 of the Constitution after an initiative sent by the presidential couple.
The reform “establishes that Nicaraguans will lose their nationality by acquiring another nationality,” the legislative body said.
“Fidelity”
“Whoever acquires another nationality and swears loyalty to a foreign state, breaks the legal and moral bond with Nicaragua.” There can be no double fidelity: the homeland demands exclusive commitment, “they argued in Ortega and Murillo law, co -president designated by her husband through a recent constitutional reform.
Constitutional changes also establish that “foreigners who request nationalize must renounce their nationality of origin, except Central Americans.”
The former guerrilla, who ruled in the 1980s during the first Sandinista dictatorship, has been in power since 2007 and is accused of opponents and critics of establishing an authoritarian regime, the second edition of the Sandinista dictatorship.
Ortega and Murillo radicalized their positions and increased control over Nicaraguan society after the 2018 protests, whose repression left more than 300 dead according to the UN, considered by the Règimen an attempted coup attempt sponsored by Washington.
