Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega won a resounding majority of votes in an election denounced as illegitimate by international leaders.

According to The Associated Press, the country's Supreme Electoral Council said that Ortega had won 75% of the vote in a landslide victory following his government's imprisonment of seven of his opponents.

According to the news service, Ortega's regime expelled or imprisoned opponents of his government.

Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, celebrated their victory on Monday while denouncing international organizations that condemned his country's election.

"The European Union has a parliament dominated by fascists and Nazis," Ortega told the Associated Press. "The fascist younger brothers of Hitler who now rule there wish to establish a fascist international in our Americas."

"Those who are imprisoned are the sons of Yankee imperialism's female dog," the president added. "They should be deported to the United States, as they ceased to be Nicaraguans long ago and lack a fatherland."

Ortega's words came in response to harsh criticism of his country's elections by European and American officials.

"Nicaragua's elections on 7 November were held without democratic guarantees, and their results lack legitimacy. Daniel Ortega has effectively eliminated all legitimate electoral competition, robbing Nicaraguans of their freedom to freely elect their representatives "On Sunday, the European Union issued a statement.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden also published a statement decrying the "sham elections" and accusing Ortega's government of conducting "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic."

On Monday, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered his condemnation of the elections.

"The Ortega-Murillo government has deprived Nicaraguans of any real choice by dissolving all genuine opposition parties and imprisoning all the principal presidential candidates," he stated.