The following mechanisms have been established for selecting alliance candidates for mayor and deputy mayor: “a) the alliance candidate runs in the primary elections on a closed ticket with the Sandinista candidate; b) the alliance candidates participate in the primary elections on separate ballots [in which] the definitive ticket will consist of the first-place alliance candidate and the first-place Sandinista candidate; c) in those municipalities where there are difficulties for the alliance candidates to accept running in the primary, the mechanism of selection by poll can be used.
Para las fórmulas de alcalde y vicealcalde, también se establecen como mecanismos de selección de candidatos de alianza: a) los candidatos de alianza corren en las elecciones primarias en fórmula cerrada con el candidato sandinista; b) Los candidatos de alianza participan en las elecciones primarias en boletas separadas.