In 2025, the Constitution of Nicaragua was amended to provide for the powers of the presidency to be exercised by two co-presidents rather than a single officeholder.

When the amendment was passed, the incumbent president Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo were declared to be the inaugural co-presidents.

[4] In 2014, the National Assembly amended the constitution to allow the President to run for an unlimited number of five-year terms.

[6] The revised constitution provides for the powers of the presidency to be exercised by a male and female co-president elected by universal suffrage.

The qualifications effectively disqualified leading opposition candidates from standing for election, as they had been exiled and stripped of their citizenship in February 2023.