Originally posted by
[email protected] 30 2004, 05:17 AM
His party is in a "power-sharing" (really loot-sharing) arrangement with his conservative "opposition"...a common practice historically in South and Central America (not to mention here in the United States).
They rigged the election laws in such a way that neither party can ever win an absolute majority nor can any third party ever challenge their joint-rule.
By the way, this really belongs in the Politics Forum...so I'm moving it there.
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Are you a fool? or just pretending? The Sandinistas won a fair election in 1984 but the U.S. government said it was a sham election while international observers declared it was a free, fair, aboveboard election. Then in 1990 the Sandinistas ran another election while the U.S. was funding, training and supplying their mercenary stooges the Contras. The U.S. said that if the Sandinistas won the election it would not desist from supporting the murderous Contras. There you have it: free election Hollywood style. Reminds me of the embargo against Cuba. "Cuba must hold free election or the embargo will not be lifted."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episo...erviews/ortega/ (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/interviews/ortega/)