Recommendation 17 (Parties and Candidates) Nicaragua 2011
http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/americas/NI/nicaragua-final-report-general-elections-eu/at_download/file
The EU EOM recommends to the new National Assembly that it approve a law on political parties which reinforces their autonomy and limits the extent to which the CSJ and the CSE can interfere in their internal workings. Preferably by means of a new law on political parties, the EU EOM considers it of great importance that parties’ legal representation be unequivocally anchored to their real and effective leadership, or to their members if they opt for a system of primary elections in their statutes. Equally, the power currently granted to the CSE by the electoral law to resolve political parties’ internal conflicts seriously damages their autonomy, and as a result, also political pluralism.