(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Only about a quarter of people in Nicaragua are content with Daniel Ortega's performance, according to a poll by CID-Gallup published in La Prensa. 26 per cent of respondents say the president's tenure has been good or very good, while 36 per cent think it has been bad or very bad.

In November 2006, Ortega—a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)—won the presidential election with 37.99 per cent of all cast ballots. Presidential candidates in Nicaragua are not compelled to garner more than 50 per cent of the vote in order to win the election.

Ortega governed from 1985 to 1990, but was a losing candidate in the 1990, 1996 and 2001 ballots. In January, he was sworn in for a five-year term.

On Jun. 24, Ortega referred to recent energy blackouts happening across the Central American country due to an electricity shortage, and vowed to put an end to the "energy bankruptcy" that has affected Nicaragua. The president declared: "We have come to take this country out of the energy situation." Ortega announced that other nations, like Iran, would help build new energy plants to address the issue.

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