# National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term Date: 2025 ## The fact On 30 January 2025 Nicaragua’s [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) gave final approval to constitutional reforms creating co-presidents, extending the presidential term from five to six years, and empowering the executive to coordinate legislative, judicial and electoral organs. Reuters and AP recorded the unanimous second reading. The text entered into force on 18 February 2025, making [Rosario Murillo](/people/rosario-murillo) co-president. A July 2026 ‘no more elections’ speech is neighbouring recorded speech, not this statute as a twin. ## Context First reading sat in November 2024. Unlimited re-election already sat from 2014. Murillo remains unresolved. He did not sit as every deputy. 2014 term-limit abolition is parent. 18 February 2025 entry into force is a child of this vote. Keep National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term on 2025-01-30 separate from neighbouring 7 November 2021 CSE night, 9 February 2023 222-flight, 10 February 2023 Álvarez sentence, 14 January 2024 Vatican expulsion, and 30 January 2025 co-presidency reform. The co-president of Nicaragua is head of state and commander-in-chief under the 2025 text. He can propose constitutional reforms and order expulsions. He does not sit as a CSE teller, a Managua trial judge, or a Vatican guest-master. Murillo is named as an unresolved person candidate. ## Evidence and sources National Assembly of Nicaragua carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is capacity for peaceful transfer: a completed co-presidency that coordinates the other organs. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Assembly approved co-presidency and a six-year term on 30 January 2025; in force 18 February. Not established: A unique later succession coefficient from Murillo, or that the July 2026 speech is this same vote. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The FSLN Assembly voted unanimously. Murillo became co-president under the text.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term, not a later speech about National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term on 2025-01-30 is not a licence to treat every later National Assembly of Nicaragua communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National Assembly gives final approval to co-presidency and a six-year term into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He proposed. The FSLN Assembly voted unanimously. Murillo became co-president under the text. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Daniel Ortega: https://factrail.ai/people/daniel-ortega ## Drivers - Ortega–Murillo family autocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ortega-family-autocracy - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaragua-congress-gives-final-approval-sweeping-constitutional-reforms-2025-01-30/ - https://www.asamblea.gob.ni/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ni-ortega-copresidency-2025