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This article explores the capacity of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) to adapt to a changing Nicaraguan political environment over the last three decades. It focuses on the FSLN's transformation from the 1980s until its recent return to power. The analysis uses the tools offered by studies on the transformation and adaptation of political parties in adverse contexts. It concentrates on the four key stages of the FSLN's transformation: the 1980s, the five-year period following the FSLN's defeat in the elections (1990-1995), the following decade in opposition (1996-2006), and the return to government. The key elements of the FSLN's adaptation relate to the centralization of party resources around the undisputed leadership of Daniel Ortega. Adapted from the source document.

After leading a revolutionary process in Nicaragua during the 1980s and losing power in the 1990 elections, the FSLN once again gained power through the elections of November 2006. In order to achieve this, the FSLN had to shed its vanguardista, corporative image. This entailed profound changes in its organization, symbols and strategies. This article interprets these changes and the type of party created as a result of them (in light of the literature on organizational change within political parties). It argues that the FSLN's process of 'adaptation' has made the party organization more personalized and less institutionalized. Adapted from the source document.

In the Nicaraguan elections of 2006, the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) regained office after 16 years of being in the opposition. The objective of this article is to analyze the reasons for the Sandinista victory & to verify if such elections constitute an electoral realignment in the country. First, the dynamics of electoral competition will be explained emphasizing a new cleavage that opposed the old sandinismo/anti-sandinismo since 1990. Second, the features of the Nicaraguan political system & the nature of the political forces as well as those of the campaign will be examined. Finally, & in order to find (or not) the level of realingment, the electoral results will he analyzed. These results may open a new dynamic of electoral competition & a different party system in Nicaragua. Adapted from the source document.