Nicaraguan president lashes EU ‘Nazis’ after contested poll victory

A man walks past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (Andres Nunes/AP)

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s democracies condemned as a sham election.

Nicaragua’s supreme electoral council said that with nearly all the ballots counted, Mr Ortega had won more than 75% of the vote.