Ortega reelected, dependent on Chavez

NICARAGUA: Leftist President Daniel Ortega may have been easily reelected to a third term in Nicaragua, but he will remain dependent on aid from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to meet the expectations of the country's poor who voted for him en masse.

Ortega won reelection Sunday with 60 percent of the vote in polls that also gave his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) a majority broad enough in the unicameral legislature to change the constitution.

The results were immediately contested by his two main rivals, Fabio Gadea, who came in second with 30.9 percent of the ballots, and former president Arnoldo Aleman, who got six percent, charged fraud. MANAGUA, Wednesday, AFP