As is the case in most of the world, Nicaragua’s electoral law includes provisions to ensure equal opportunities during the electoral campaign and avoid an overwhelming dominance of candidates who have greater resources to spend on propaganda. These provisions limit the amount of propaganda allowed in the media, require the provision of daily free space on State radio and television and oblige media organs to present a list of their fees to the CSE, to ensure that these are no higher than normal advertising rates and that they are the same for all candidates. The main problems observed in these past elections were that these provisions were not respected, and that the CSE neither encouraged compliance nor sanctioned infractions. As a result, in order to avoid the absolute dominance of one party in the media that was displayed by the FSLN in the 2011 elections, the EU EOM recommends that the current tight limits on propaganda in the media be raised, and that the CSE then avail itself of its powers to monitor and sanction media outlets or candidates who breach the law. The CSE’s active monitoring and sanctioning would help prevent the party with more resources to dominate in the media but would also put an end to anonymous campaigns against candidates and the violation of the campaign silence period, both of which were allowed to go ahead in the 2011 elections.