Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega aims to exclude “traitors” and “coup-plotting” opposition members from elections, while also seeking to extend the presidential term from six to seven “renewable” years, according to a draft constitutional reform sent to Congress. Congress President Gustavo Porras previewed the content of the reform on Tuesday, according to several media outlets, though he did not provide many details. “Our system of government, under the presidency of the people, proposes to be organised with an effective term of seven renewable years,” Porras said as he read the proposal. A previous constitutional amendment was passed in 2024 that extended the presidential term from five to six years and elevated Rosario Murillo, Ortega’s wife and then-vice president, to the position of co-president. Opponents criticised those moves as an effort to keep the presidential family in power indefinitely.