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Juan Sebastian Chamorro, 5 March

Nicaragua: A New Absolutist Constitution Tailor-Made for an Authoritarian Couple

Sharon Pia Hickey, 10 February

In the World of Constitution-Building in 2024 and 2025 Forecast

David Landau, 21 July 2015

Term Limits Manipulation across Latin America – and what Constitutional Design could do about it

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3 February

Op-ed: Nicaragua's constitutional overhaul endangers freedoms and democracy

25 November 2024

Nicaragua's legislature unanimously approves constitutional reforms

5 July 2023

In Nicaragua, president proposes constitutional amendment to enhance executive control of police

16 December 2019

Nicaraguan political parties unveil broad electoral reform proposal

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Nicaragua's new Constitution becomes law

18 February 2014

Changes to Nicaragua's constitution have gone into effect, paving the way for its leader, Daniel Ortega, to run for a third consecutive term in 2016. The …

A woman walks past murals of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (r.) and Nicaraguan revolutionary and Sandinista leader Augusto Cesar Sandino in Catarina November 4. President Ortega's ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front party will seek to change the constitution by year-end to remove presidential term limits.

Is Nicaragua's Constitution facing an extreme Sandinista makeover?

25 November 2013

After years of tweaking and sidestepping articles that were inconvenient to Sandinista rule, such as the ban on presidential reelection, the ruling party is now…