Nicaraguan Indigenous party says government has barred it ahead of local elections

FILE PHOTO: Indigenous Miskito men use a boat to cross a road flooded by the Wawa Boom river due to heavy rain caused by Hurricane Iota as it passed through the Caribbean coast in Bilwi, Nicaragua November 18, 2020. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/File Photo

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan electoral authorities barred an Indigenous party that has in the past clashed with President Daniel Ortega, a party official said on Wednesday, leaving the ruling Sandinistas with no opposition in upcoming local elections in two regions.

The official, Sammy Allen Cubero, wrote in a Facebook post that the Yatama party had been disqualified from participating in all future elections, including a local vote scheduled for March.