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2021/2777(RSP) Resolution on the situation in Nicaragua

Progress: Procedure completed

Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2

Events

2021/07/08
   EP - Decision by Parliament
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The European Parliament adopted by 629 votes to 19, with 40 abstentions, a resolution on the situation in Nicaragua.

The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.

As a reminder, the human rights and democracy situation in Nicaragua has further gravely deteriorated in the aftermath of the violent repression of civic protests in April 2018.

On 4 May 2021, the Nicaraguan National Assembly passed reforms on Electoral Law 331, which incorporates recently adopted punitive laws. The reform also incorporates rules that restrict electoral competition and the exercise of political rights that further limit the participation of the political opposition, and limits public freedoms contrary to international standards. The Nicaraguan authorities have also dissolved two political parties without due process in recent weeks, using methods that are contrary to international norms.

Since the beginning of June 2021 at least 21 democratic opposition members, including six pre-presidential candidates and union and political leaders, have been arbitrarily arrested under politically fabricated and ambiguous criminal allegations without any evidence in a process marred by serious violations of procedural guarantees, which demonstrates the lack of independence of the judiciary. These worrying developments overseen by the Nicaraguan Government show that the regime is drifting further into authoritarianism by shutting off space for democracy, national understanding and international mediation towards a peaceful solution to the conflict, and clearly impeding the holding of free and fair elections on 7 November 2021.

Parliament expressed its solidarity with the Nicaraguan population and strongly condemned all the repressive actions of the Nicaraguan authorities against democratic opposition parties and their members, journalists and other media workers, students, indigenous people, human rights defenders and civil society, as well as their family members, and in particular the deaths caused.

It called for:

- an immediate stop to the imposition of restrictive measures, repression and human rights violations;

- the immediate and unconditional release of all arbitrarily detained political prisoners and other opposition activists, human rights defenders and journalists.

The Nicaraguan government is called on to:

- lift the de facto state of siege, respect the role of the national police as a non-political, non-partisan and non-deliberative force, disarm the paramilitary forces and restore citizens’ rights;

- immediately restore the legal personality of human rights defenders organisations;

- create an independent investigative unit involving international experts to oversee credible, impartial and exhaustive investigations into the alleged responsibility of top police officials for grave human rights violations committed in the context of the 2018 crackdown and thereafter;

- make immediate changes to the electoral law, appoint impartial people to the different electoral structures, restore the legal status of the parties that were stripped of it, to respect the right of Nicaraguans to elect and be elected, and guarantee the unrestricted presence of national and international electoral observation bodies while committing to political coexistence after the elections;

- immediately repeal the adoption and implementation of the restrictive and punitive laws.

The Council and the Member States are called on to:

- swiftly expand the list of individuals and entities to be sanctioned, including the President and Vice-President of Nicaragua and their inner circle, taking particular care to do no harm to the Nicaraguan people;

- closely monitor the situation on the ground through their representatives and embassies in Nicaragua, including through trial monitoring and by visiting critics and opposition leaders in prison or under house arrest.

Lastly, Parliament called on the EU Delegation to Nicaragua and the Member States, where appropriate, to facilitate the issuance of emergency visas and provide temporary refuge for political reasons in the Member States.

Documents
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   EP - Motion for a resolution
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   EP - Motion for a resolution
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   Joint motion for resolution
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   EP - Debate in Parliament

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Situation au Nicaragua - RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - Am 2 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: -: 603, +: 56, 0: 37
EL LV MT CY LU EE LT SI HR SK FI DK IE PT BG CZ SE AT BE HU IT NL RO FR ES PL DE
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - Am 3 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: -: 559, +: 120, 0: 17
IE FI CY LU LT SI LV MT EE EL DK HR CZ SK SE BE PT AT BG HU NL DE RO ES FR PL IT
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - § 5/1 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: +: 624, -: 52, 0: 20
DE IT PL ES RO FR NL HU SE BG CZ PT BE AT DK HR SK LT FI EL SI LV IE MT LU EE CY
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - § 5/2 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: +: 618, 0: 39, -: 39
DE IT PL ES FR RO NL HU AT BE SE BG CZ PT DK HR LT FI EL SK SI LV EE MT LU IE CY
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - § 5/3 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: +: 616, -: 41, 0: 39
DE IT PL ES FR RO NL HU SE BG CZ PT AT BE DK HR SK FI EL LT SI LV MT LU IE EE CY
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - § 5/4 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: +: 618, 0: 39, -: 39
DE IT PL ES FR RO NL HU AT BE SE BG CZ PT DK HR SK FI EL LT SI LV EE MT LU IE CY
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RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - Am 1 08/07/2021 12:06:26.161 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: -: 555, +: 129, 0: 10
IT EE MT CY LU SK LT LV SI HR DK FI AT IE EL SE BE CZ BG HU FR PT NL RO ES PL DE
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1

Croatia NI

2

Greece NI

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1

Netherlands NI

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1

Germany NI

2
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63

Slovakia ECR

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1

Lithuania ECR

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1

Latvia ECR

2

Croatia ECR

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1

Greece ECR

1

Bulgaria ECR

2

Netherlands ECR

Against (1)

4

Romania ECR

Against (1)

1

Germany ECR

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1
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39

Cyprus The Left

2

Denmark The Left

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1

Finland The Left

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1

Ireland The Left

4

Sweden The Left

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1

Belgium The Left

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1

Czechia The Left

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1

Netherlands The Left

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1
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Luxembourg Verts/ALE

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1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

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1

Latvia Verts/ALE

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1

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2

Finland Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

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1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

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1
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98

Italy Renew

For (1)

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2

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3

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2

Lithuania Renew

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1

Latvia Renew

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1

Slovenia Renew

2

Croatia Renew

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1

Finland Renew

3

Austria Renew

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1

Ireland Renew

2

Sweden Renew

3

Bulgaria Renew

3

Hungary Renew

2
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143

Estonia S&D

2

Cyprus S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

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1

Slovakia S&D

2

Lithuania S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

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2

Finland S&D

2

Greece S&D

2

Belgium S&D

3

Czechia S&D

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1
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175

Estonia PPE

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1

Malta PPE

2

Cyprus PPE

2

Luxembourg PPE

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Latvia PPE

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Slovenia PPE

4

Denmark PPE

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Situation au Nicaragua - RC-B9-0400/2021 /REV - Proposition de résolution 08/07/2021 15:53:14.480 #

2021/07/08 Outcome: +: 629, 0: 40, -: 19
DE IT FR ES PL RO NL HU SE BE AT BG CZ PT EL DK FI SK HR LT SI LV EE MT LU IE CY
Total
90
74
79
59
51
32
29
21
20
20
19
17
21
20
20
14
14
13
12
10
8
8
7
6
6
12
6
icon: PPE PPE
173

Hungary PPE

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1

Malta PPE

2

Luxembourg PPE

2
2
icon: S&D S&D
140

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Greece S&D

2

Lithuania S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Estonia S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Cyprus S&D

2
icon: Renew Renew
98

Italy Renew

2

Hungary Renew

2
3

Austria Renew

For (1)

1

Finland Renew

3

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Lithuania Renew

1

Slovenia Renew

2

Latvia Renew

For (1)

1

Estonia Renew

3

Luxembourg Renew

2

Ireland Renew

2
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
71

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

3

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

Abstain (1)

1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Ireland Verts/ALE

2
icon: ECR ECR
62

Germany ECR

1

Romania ECR

1

Netherlands ECR

4

Bulgaria ECR

2

Greece ECR

1

Slovakia ECR

For (1)

1

Croatia ECR

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Latvia ECR

2
icon: ID ID
70

Netherlands ID

Against (1)

1
3

Czechia ID

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Denmark ID

Abstain (1)

1

Finland ID

2

Estonia ID

For (1)

1
icon: NI NI
35

Germany NI

Against (1)

2

Netherlands NI

1

Greece NI

Abstain (1)

3

Slovakia NI

Against (1)

1

Croatia NI

2

Lithuania NI

1
icon: The Left The Left
39

Germany The Left

5

Netherlands The Left

For (1)

1

Sweden The Left

For (1)

1

Belgium The Left

Abstain (1)

1

Czechia The Left

Against (1)

1

Portugal The Left

4

Denmark The Left

1

Finland The Left

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1

Ireland The Left

Abstain (1)

4

Cyprus The Left

2

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • The European Parliament adopted by 629 votes to 19, with 40 abstentions, a resolution on the situation in Nicaragua.
  • The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.
  • As a reminder, the human rights and democracy situation in Nicaragua has further gravely deteriorated in the aftermath of the violent repression of civic protests in April 2018.
  • On 4 May 2021, the Nicaraguan National Assembly passed reforms on Electoral Law 331, which incorporates recently adopted punitive laws. The reform also incorporates rules that restrict electoral competition and the exercise of political rights that further limit the participation of the political opposition, and limits public freedoms contrary to international standards. The Nicaraguan authorities have also dissolved two political parties without due process in recent weeks, using methods that are contrary to international norms.
  • Since the beginning of June 2021 at least 21 democratic opposition members, including six pre-presidential candidates and union and political leaders, have been arbitrarily arrested under politically fabricated and ambiguous criminal allegations without any evidence in a process marred by serious violations of procedural guarantees, which demonstrates the lack of independence of the judiciary. These worrying developments overseen by the Nicaraguan Government show that the regime is drifting further into authoritarianism by shutting off space for democracy, national understanding and international mediation towards a peaceful solution to the conflict, and clearly impeding the holding of free and fair elections on 7 November 2021.
  • Parliament expressed its solidarity with the Nicaraguan population and strongly condemned all the repressive actions of the Nicaraguan authorities against democratic opposition parties and their members, journalists and other media workers, students, indigenous people, human rights defenders and civil society, as well as their family members, and in particular the deaths caused.
  • It called for:
  • - an immediate stop to the imposition of restrictive measures, repression and human rights violations;
  • - the immediate and unconditional release of all arbitrarily detained political prisoners and other opposition activists, human rights defenders and journalists.
  • The Nicaraguan government is called on to:
  • - lift the de facto state of siege, respect the role of the national police as a non-political, non-partisan and non-deliberative force, disarm the paramilitary forces and restore citizens’ rights;
  • - immediately restore the legal personality of human rights defenders organisations;
  • - create an independent investigative unit involving international experts to oversee credible, impartial and exhaustive investigations into the alleged responsibility of top police officials for grave human rights violations committed in the context of the 2018 crackdown and thereafter;
  • - make immediate changes to the electoral law, appoint impartial people to the different electoral structures, restore the legal status of the parties that were stripped of it, to respect the right of Nicaraguans to elect and be elected, and guarantee the unrestricted presence of national and international electoral observation bodies while committing to political coexistence after the elections;
  • - immediately repeal the adoption and implementation of the restrictive and punitive laws.
  • The Council and the Member States are called on to:
  • - swiftly expand the list of individuals and entities to be sanctioned, including the President and Vice-President of Nicaragua and their inner circle, taking particular care to do no harm to the Nicaraguan people;
  • - closely monitor the situation on the ground through their representatives and embassies in Nicaragua, including through trial monitoring and by visiting critics and opposition leaders in prison or under house arrest.
  • Lastly, Parliament called on the EU Delegation to Nicaragua and the Member States, where appropriate, to facilitate the issuance of emergency visas and provide temporary refuge for political reasons in the Member States.
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  • date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00 docs: url: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2021-0405_EN.html title: B9-0405/2021 type: Motion for a resolution body: EP
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