Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista

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Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista
Party leader Suyén Barahona Cuan
founding 05/18/1995
Headquarters Managua
Alignment Social democracy
Colours) red
International connections Progressive Alliance
Website www.partidomrs.org

The Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista , abbreviated as MRS , (German: Movement of the Sandinista Renewal ) is a left-wing party in Nicaragua . It was founded in 1995 by former members of the traditional Sandinista party FSLN . The supporters of the MRS include or have been central figures of the Sandinista movement, such as Sergio Ramírez , Dora María Téllez , Ernesto Cardenal , Herty Lewites and Edmundo Jarquín . In the 2006 presidential elections, the MRS candidate Edmundo Jarquín won 6.44% of the vote, while Daniel Ortega (the FSLN candidate) won the election with more than 38%.

Early development

The MRS is supported by members of the Sandinista movement, which overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and ruled Nicaragua until 1990. After the election defeat, there were internal conflicts, in particular the left-wing intellectual camp criticized the party leader and former president Daniel Ortega. Prominent members such as the writer Gioconda Belli and the liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal left the party. Ramírez, the writer, former vice-president and colleague Ortega also turned his back on the FSLN and became the central figure of the newly founded MRS. Ramírez now criticizes Ortega very sharply, counts him as part of the corrupt establishment and declares him to be the greatest problem of the Sandist movement.

The MRS was not able to develop into a popular alternative to the FSLN in the following years, also because Ramírez finally withdrew from politics in 1996. In addition, the left-wing intellectual Sandinista, who support the MRS, were a very small group; the ordinary population continued to feel that they were represented by the FSLN. In the 2001 presidential election, the MRS entered into an alliance with the FSLN, but was unable to prevail. However, it was possible to win the elections in most Nicaraguan cities, including Managua .

Lewites and the 2006 elections

In the 2006 elections, the former president and the failed presidential candidate Ortega in 1996 and 2001 wanted to run again for the FSLN. However, the then mayor of Managua, Herty Lewites, announced that he also wanted to run, which would have required an internal party primary. Since Lewites was extremely popular and would have had very good chances in an internal party candidacy, Ortega had Lewites unceremoniously expelled from the FSLN. Lewites then turned to the MRS and was run as the party's presidential candidate. As a candidate, Lewites didn't seem to have a bad chance, also because Ortega was incriminated by rape allegations. In addition, the conservative camp split, so that four large blocs ran in the 2006 presidential election. Lewites died on July 2, 2006, when the new candidate was the economist Edmundo Jarquín. Jarquín ended up in fourth place with 6.44%, while Ortega was able to prevail in the first ballot.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ La Jornada: Daniel Ortega, virtual presidente electo de Nicaragua: Consejo Supremo Electoral . November 8, 2006
  2. ↑ Sergio Ramírez: Adios Muchachos A Memory of the Sandinista Revolution. Hammer, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3872948717
  3. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel : Metamorphosis of the Idealist . November 4, 2006
  4. ↑ Commune : The end of a hope. The Daniel Ortega sex scandal exacerbates the political and moral crisis of the Frente Sandinista ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeko-net.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . July 1998