Nicaragua’s congress announces ‘work plan’ to suspend elections

<p>US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regime</p><p>Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by the country’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has announced a “work plan” to implement the authoritarian leader’s order that the country should no longer hold elections.</p><p>The UN and the US strongly condemned <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/nicaraguas-president-says-country-will-not-hold-any-more-elections">Sunday’s announcement</a> by Ortega, who has been in power since 2007 and, after a controversial constitutional change last year, now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/nicaragua-ortega-wife-absolute-power">governs alongside his wife</a>, Rosario Murillo, as “co-president”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/nicaragua-daniel-ortega-congress-work-plan-suspend-elections">Continue reading...</a>