LAST SUNDAY's Nicaraguan elections registered a huge political success for the FSLN government. Despite a boycott of the elections by all the main capitalist parties, constant economic and military pressure by the United States to boycott the vote, reports show a turn out for the polls of over 80 This massive turn out Lo vole consulutes duao rebuff to Reagan's claim that the first free elections in Nicaraguan history were 'fraudulent' and that the FSLN government does not have the support of the Nicaraguan people.
Even more grotesque therefore was Reagan's declaration on Sunday the elecuon was 'phoney'. An in WICE 80 per cent of the population vote is apparently no good for Yet in the US Presidential elections, on. ly around 55 per cent of the population vote!
Even more convoluted were the accusations of the US State Department. Ac. cording to the US InternaMonday, *The principal problem with the election according to US officials, is that Nicaraguans cannot vote for the four parties HUSU opposed to the government because these parties are boycotting the That is a real Alice in tional Herald Tribune on Wonderland reasoning! If the FSLN's opponents bovcott elecuons because they think they will lose, then the lack choice is due to the FLN!
The reality is clear. . The Nicaraguan elections last Sunday registered massive popular the FSLN free poll. -The movement must redouble campaign to stop Reagan's secret war against government which enjoys huge popularity and which now even has greater anything possessed bs the United States!