Word: coordinadora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Assembly, which was elected last November. The Sandinistas hold 61 of 96 seats, reflecting their 66% election majority. The remainder are divided among six small parties that are described as opposition but that often vote with the Sandinistas. The main opposition group outside the legislature, the Coordinadora Democratica Nicaraguense, refused to participate in the election and remains leaderless and in disarray. In any case, the work of the Assembly is largely peripheral. Under a constitutional state of emergency declared in 1982 in response to the contra threats, almost all important decisions are enacted by presidential decree...
...parties felt free to participate. But counting the Independent Liberals, five parties refused to take part on the grounds that the procedures under which the elections were held were unfair. Serving as an umbrella organization for the other nonparticipants was Nicaragua's most prominent opposition group, the Coordinadora, an amalgam of four opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen led by Arturo Cruz Porras, a former Sandinista junta member. As a result, in Washington's view, no one except the Sandinistas had any chance...
...home and abroad that the Sandinista government legitimately represents the Nicaraguan people. What makes the vote especially suspect in U.S. eyes is the absence of a strong opponent to Ortega. Arturo Cruz Porras, a former member of the Sandinista junta, originally planned to head a ticket backed by the Coordinadora, an amalgam of opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen. Cruz's supporters, however, demanded concessions from the Sandinistas, including a relaxation of press censorship. After several weeks of bargaining, the talks broke down. Though foreign diplomats in Managua agree that the Coordinadora could not have won the election...
...reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora, a coalition of political parties, businessmen and labor unions that has chosen Cruz to head its ticket. Cruz has refused to sign up officially for the race because of the date of the election...
Despite the rancor, there is hope for negotiations that could bring about a postponement of Nicaragua's election. "Nothing is impossible," says one Coordinadora official, who points sout that the Sandinistas agreed recently to reverse a previous descision and extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked...