# EU sanctions targeted the police and electoral authority after the 2021 process

Date: 2022

The Council of the European Union imposed restrictive measures on additional individuals and entities including Nicaragua's National Police and Supreme Electoral Council. The Council stated that listed actors were responsible for serious human-rights violations, repression of civil society, support for the presidential and parliamentary elections it characterized as fraudulent, or undermining democracy and the rule of law. [Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/01/10/nicaragua-council-sanctions-seven-more-individuals-and-three-entities-linked-to-the-regime/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

## Drivers

- Ortega–Murillo family autocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ortega-family-autocracy

## Sources

- https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0481
- https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/01/10/nicaragua-council-sanctions-seven-more-individuals-and-three-entities-linked-to-the-regime/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-sanctions-police-electoral-council-2022