Ortega re-election viewed as certainty - Sun, 06 Nov 2011 PST

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua’s Constitution bars re-election for politicians, but that’s proved no obstacle to President Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader, who’s widely expected to win another term in office in voting today. Ortega beat that particular problem in 2009, when friendly appointees on the country’s Supreme Court essentially declared the constitution’s ban on re-election