Nicaraguan general election, 2006
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Nicaragua will hold a general election on 5 November 2006. The country's voters will go to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 92 members of the National Assembly, both of which will serve five-year terms.
Presidential candidates
- Edmundo Jarquín, Movement to Restore Sandinismo (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, MRS); vice-presidential running mate folk musician Carlos Mejía Godoy. (The MRS's original candidate, Herty Lewites, died of a heart attack on 3 July 2006.[link] Jarquín, his vice-presidential candidate, took his place.)
- Eduardo Montealegre, Conservative Party (Partido Conservador, PC).
- Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
- José Rizo Castellón, Constitutional Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC); vice-presidential running mate José Antonio Alvarado.
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