Is there a rift inside the sandinistas? Like a power struggle or something?
I'm just asking because in my experience, when a president put his wife on the ticket it was because she was the only one neutral that wouldn't alienate any of the factions. Of course this is Argentina but I wonder anyway.
Reporting is spares. Most of the articles covering the election don't even mention the opposition candidates or if they do, just say that "most people don't even know the names of the opposition candidates" so if there is a split in the Sandinistas, it'd be hard to find out about.
There was a split before of course, decades ago, that led to the creation of the Sandinista Renovation Movement. It would have won elections in 2006 instead of the mainstream FLSN except that their leader died.