According to the most recent bulletin of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the inhabitants of the autonomous regions of the North and South Caribbean coast will be protagonists of a new democratic process to elect their authorities.

The vote will be held in March in the context of their general rights as Nicaraguan citizens, with their own organizational, cultural, social and economic particularities.

In accordance with the electoral law, known as regulation 331, during the elections 90 representatives from 30 constituencies will be elected; three councilors for each constituency.

The CSE explained that each regional council comprises 45 members, who will represent all the ethnic communities of the corresponding autonomous region and will be elected by universal, direct, free and secret vote.

The CSE highlighted that the regional councils that are elected are complemented by the particularities, existing forms of organization in the Caribbean such as communal and territorial, indigenous and Afro-descendant governments.

The Council added that the elections also respond to law number 28, the statute of autonomy of the regions of the Caribbean coast, which is attached to the Nicaraguan constitution.

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