Supreme Leader Claims Rigged Elections

WTF is Supreme Leader going on about? Does anybody buy this? Why doesn't Supreme Leader sanction China if he loves democracy so much?

What Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, orchestrated today [11/07/2021] was a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic. The arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates, and the blocking of political parties from participation rigged the outcome well before election day. They shuttered independent media, locked up journalists and members of the private sector, and bullied civil society organizations into closing their doors. Long unpopular and now without a democratic mandate, the Ortega and Murillo family now rule Nicaragua as autocrats, no different from the Somoza family that Ortega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...ham-elections/