The US should not recognize the results of the latest Nicarguan election.

It is my intention to give sufficient reason for the resolution, ‘The United States Government should not recognize the results of the recent Nicaraguan election'The Nicaraguan national election was held last Sunday, November 6th. The controversy of the election started before the election.1. Constitutionally illegitimate candidate: Daniel Ortega was violating the Nicaraguan constitution in both the term limits, and the running consecutive terms. In the Nicaraguan constitution it is stipulated that the president cannot run for more than two terms, and a president cannot run in consecutive terms. This is to prevent a dictatorial regime, and put a safeguard on the democratic process. Simply by running he is in violation of the country's constitution, and his blatant disregard for the rule of law, and the rule of the land is justification alone for a country that values the integrity of the electoral process to not acknowledge this man in his bid for re-election. [1][Although the elections of the national seats that took place in this last election are also fraught with fraud, I will keep the argument to Daniel Ortega, since he is running as President, and it is he who the US Government would recognize.]It is key in understanding how Ortega has held and grown his control over the country, by understanding the role his party, the Sandinista Party his played in the country since he gained control. All possible judges, particularly Supreme Court Judges, and election officials are Sandinista, all police force and military forces are loyal to the Sandinistas over the Nicaraguan people. Sufficient branches of government and those with influence over the economy are loyal Sandinistas to facilitate Ortega's designs. 2. Fraudulent electoral process: The Ortega administration mandated, prior to the election, an identity card would be required for the election, and these cards would need to be obtained through members of the FSLN (Sandinista Party). Members of FSLN easily and quickly received their cards, whereas other requestors of the identity cards were waiting for a year or more. Essentially Ortega achieved an election that would be wholly managed by his party the Sandinistas, and two thirds of the places in Nicaragua were run by Sandinistas, and those that were not had the greatest instances of identity card rejection.[ 2] At the time of election the voter must present this identity card, and it must have an authorized stamp that the Sandinistas created. Without that stamp the identity card was invalid, and countless identity cards were found invalid because they did not have the proper stamp, all those people were not Sandinista. The incidents of fraud are too numerous to list, and was so rampant that it will never be truly documented. [3] The entire election was controlled and managed by the Sandinistas under the dictates of Daniel Ortega, for the benefit of Daniel Ortega's reelection and total control over the Nicaraguan people. [4]3. Impact of fraudulent election in Nicaragua: With a total disregard to the constitution in the running of Daniel Ortega as president violating the constitution, and the principles that safe guard its people from a dictator he degrades the constitution in its intended purpose of providing a democratic rule of checks and balances over the land. What is even more important to note is that if a president is elected with more than 50% of the popular vote he is empowered to change the constitution as he sees fit. This is a massive coup of power to the presidency, and by illegally obtaining that number of votes he has effectively taken control of all aspects of governance within the country. It is a true theft of total power with the obvious intentions of a dictatorial regime in perpetuity. It is also important to understand the corruption within the Ortega regime, and the personal corruption of the man. He has become one of the richest men in Central America, leader of the second poorest countries in the hemisphere. He has skimmed oil wealth from his mentor Hugo Chavez, and has instituted a party and government of kleptocracy beyond anything people commonly know about. [6] [7]4. Organizations and Governments of the world community not recognizing the election: [8]European UnionOrganization of American StatesHondurasCanadaCosta RicaPanamaIsrael 5. Countries and organizations that recognize Daniel Ortega as the duly elected leader of Nicaragua:CubaVenezuelaEl SalvadorALBA (client states Hugo Chavez) [9] Russia [10] 6. Why the US position should be firm against recognition:In our hemisphere in particular it is important as both a leader of the world, and a member of the world community to take a position of intolerance to would be dictators who corrupt the very mechanism of democracy in order that they may amass more power and more wealth at the expense of the very poor. As long as we are the prominent member of the world stage, and one who hopes to encourage the values of freedom and democracy the United States must join other countries who do not give any legitimacy to an election that was not just stolen but orchestrated in the most blatant of attempts to emasculate any opposition, and to entrench a putrefied regime. It is beyond obvious that the US government should not recognize the results of the recent Nicaraguan election; it would be borderline accessory to a crime to provide an ounce of legitimacy to this farce, and an insult to the Nicaraguans who are fighting against this fraud with their lives. 1. http://pdba.georgetown.edu...2. http://www.lab.org.uk...3. http://www.confidencial.com.ni...4. http://www.radio-corporacion.com...5. IBID 26. http://wn.com...7. http://politic-bazooka.blogspot.com...8. http://actuable.es...9. http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com...10. http://eng.kremlin.ru... Apologies for the sources in Spanish, but Google Chrome will translate much of it. My best sources were in Spanish, and doing the searches in English just didn't provide the information I needed.