Nicaragua's ruling party supporters attack opposition leader in demonstration
17/11/2008 17:36
Supporters of Nicaragua's ruling party yesterday attacked the caravan of
the opposition leader Eduardo Montealegr, who was heading a protest march in the
western province of Leon.
Rejecting the results of the municipal elections on
Nov. 9, the opposition Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) yesterday staged a
march in Leon province, 93 km northwest of the capital Managua. The
demonstrators clashed with the supporters of the ruling party Sandinista
National Liberation Front (FSLN), who threw mortars, stones and bludgeons to
Montealegre's caravan.
Alvaro Salas, the prosecutor of the sixth districts of
Managua from the PLC, was injured. AK-47 rifles were allegedly heard
fired.
Montealegr criticized that unknown people aboard an ambulance shot at
persons accompanied him.
Transito Tellez, Leon's governor from the FSLN, said
the supporters of the Nicaraguan government were celebrating the electoral
triumph and repelled the march.
During the elections, the FSLN won 103
municipalities of the 146 in dispute. The PLC, which won 39 municipalities, said
that there were electoral frauds in Managua, Leon and other regions of the
country, where the opposition does not accept the defeat.
Xinhua
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