MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaragua's government has barred two political parties from running in the country's Nov. 9 municipal elections.

The country's electoral agency said Wednesday that the Sandinista Renovation Movement had failed to meet a deadline for naming party representatives in all of the country's electoral districts.

The party broke away from the ruling Sandinista Front in the 1990s.

The small Conservative Party was also barred on the same grounds.

MRS leader Dora Maria Tellez is on a weeklong hunger strike to demand her party's return to the race.

Nicaragua has authorized 17 other parties to run on the November ballot. The tow barred parties were expected to be contenders for many key mayoral posts.

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