Nicaragua Declares 3 Days Of Public Holidays For Municipal Elections

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo (MITRAB) and Nicaragua public holidays (qppstudio.net). At the request of the Electoral Commission of Nicaragua, the Labor Minister of Nicaragua, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, issued the ministerial decision JCHG - 012-11-08 declaring 3 days of public holidays for the upcoming municipal elections.

These 3 days of paid nationwide public holidays (asueto con goce de salario, a nivel nacional) will be Friday, Saturday and Monday, November, 7-8-10, 2008. Separate municipal elections are scheduled for Sunday, January 18, 2009, in the Caribe Norte (northern part of Nicaragua) which sustained heavy damages from hurricane Felix in September 2007.

Update (Nov-5) The Ministry of Labour of Nicaragua (MITRAB) released ordinance JCHG-013-11-08 which modifies ordinance JCHG-012-11-08 with respect to the status of the upcoming November 7-8 municipal elections public holidays, making them holidays to be taken out of yearly vacations instead of paid holidays as originally announced.

Update (Nov-6) In what is the third modification this week, the Ministry of Labour of Nicaragua (MITRAB) has announced that it was rescinding ordinances JCHG-013-11-08 and JCHG-012-11-08, relative to the public holidays for the upcoming municipal elections. Friday, November 7, 2008, will be a public holiday for civil servants only, while Monday, November 10, 2008, will remain a full paid public holiday for all.