Nicaragua postpones vote on excluding opposition from elections to September

Nicaragua has postponed until September a vote on excluding opposition parties from elections, Nicaraguan co-leader Rosario Murillo said Monday. A vote in the legislature on those measures had been slated for August, after longtime President Daniel Ortega announced earlier this month that dissenting individuals and groups would not contest future elections. Murillo, who is Ortega's wife, said that a special commission responsible for drafting the changes "would present before a plenary session w