 Then, Edmundo Jarquín Calderón became the candidate for the presidency and Carlos Mejía Godoy, candidate for the vice-presidency.Hertty Lewites's sudden death affected the possibilities for the MRS Alliance, which in the end obtained approximately 8% of the votes.On June 11, 2008, in the context of the municipal electoral process for the November 9 elections, the Supreme Electoral Council of Nicaragua (CSE) - controlled by Daniel Ortega, who took over the government in 2007-, canceled the legal personality of the MRS, arguing itsr “self-dissolution".