Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife Nicaragua’s ‘co-presidents’

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega has proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current vice president Rosario Murillo, “co-presidents” of the central American nation.

While the initiative has to pass through the country’s legislature, Mr Ortega and Ms Murillo’s Sandinista party control the congress and all government institutions, so it is likely to be approved.