Declarations by Compañero Dr. Gustavo Porras, President of the National Assembly,
after the Presentation of the Proposed Reforms to the Political Constitution
to the Sector of Investors and Entrepreneurs
July 30th 2026
Well, what we want to convey to you is that today we have had two very important Meetings. The first meeting was with our country’s Police Forces.
It was a very agreeable, very important meeting, with Commanders, Officers and Subordinates, and the National Police High Command, the First Commissioner and the Co-Chief of the Police Forces were present.
There we explained this Reform which we have been developing, little by little, synthesizing it into six Concepts, since it is important that you can visualize it, and the People of Nicaragua, above all, that the People President can visualize what is being worked out.
The first concept is: They will not prevail! that is to say, all those people who are coup promoters, traitors to the Nation, those who threaten our Independence, Sovereignty and Self-determination, and those people who violate the Constitution, will be able neither to participate in elections nor be candidates. In other words, they will not prevail!
The second concept is Stability. We need periods of stability, and the proposal which has been emerging is that the periods of offices subject to election, and therefore the electoral periods, should be seven years. That will give stability.
We propose the third concept as being Cohesion and Security; that is to say, just as the electoral period is seven years and the official posts are going to be elected for seven years, the appointment of the Heads of the Military and Police Forces too are going to be for a period of seven years, because there has to be Cohesion and Security.
Next, we also have the powers of the Supreme Electoral Council. We have highlighted this, the Supreme Electoral Council has the power to call Elections every seven years, as appropriate, National, Municipal and Regional.
But it also has the power to cancel the legal personality of those political parties, and not to permit to run as candidates those individuals who make calls for military intervention, calls for sanctions. In general, those who act against the entire Political Constitution of Nicaragua, against Independence, against Sovereignty and Self-Determination. They cannot possibly participate.
The Council is being given the power to withhold or cancel the Legal Personality of those political parties, and to make the decision on this. But it also applies to those political parties which receive foreign funding. In other words, the elections are of Nicaraguans, for Nicaraguans, organized by Nicaraguans.
The time is long gone, the time, back in 1928 and 1932, when the president of the Supreme Electoral Council in that moment, when it was called the National Electoral Council, was a US Army General, General McCoy, a gringo general, imposed by the President of the United States. That time is long gone. Did it happen in Nicaragua? Indeed it did, but we have learned from that history, and now the elections belong to Nicaraguans, for Nicaraguans.
The time of the Dodd Law is long gone too, which was a Law organized by a certain Mr. Dodd, who was a US academic hired to design a Law for Bipartisanship. I mean, those times are over.
Now we have a model of gender equity, 50-50. Those were times when Nicaraguan women could not vote, only men could voted and they had to be over 21 years old, or else married in the Church, and able to read and write, and back then was a time of widespread illiteracy. That was the reality back then. Now, we are moving onward and we are developing a process of the People President.
Finally we have the concept that we call PAX; referring to Rubén Darío, you may know that he has a very beautiful poem called PAX, PAX, PAX. And that poem PAX makes us remember Darío, because in honor of Darío we are going to hold the transition of our authorities on January 18th, which is the birthday of Rubén Darío.
And finally, the last concept is Coherence; or put another way, the changes being made have to connect with the current reality. Thus, the existing positions or those currently elected, ought to have their term extended to seven years, so that they match correctly with the Constitutional Changes.
In conclusion, today, proud of that meeting in the morning, and proud too today this afternoon, of the meeting with the business sector, with the sectors of industry, agro-industry, and commercial companies.
Everyone concerned was there, I think there were about 80 people, representatives of the different sectors, and they all expressed their opinion with applause, with a vision of satisfaction that we are moving onward. We are all united. Moreover, someone from these sectors in that group told me: We are joined in the fight against poverty, which is the central concern.
Journalist
Why is it important for these sectors to get to know these Constitutional Reforms?
Remars of Dr. Gustavo Porras
Firstly, because they are Nicaraguans; secondly, because they work in Nicaragua; thirdly, because we are talking about the fight against poverty; there can be no fight against poverty in which the business sectors are not integrated and do not participate. Of course, each of these companies has workers who will also get to know about the proposal in due course.
The important thing here is that all sectors take part, yesterday it was the bankers, yesterday it was the financial sectors, tomorrow comes the productive sector; that is, we all have to be organized, by which I mean united, in this fight against Poverty, which is achieved via the bases on which we are working out this Constitutional Reform, which are, Stability, Security and Peace.
Journalists
Thank you, Doctor.