The single amendment put to a vote in this file — a clause welcoming Spain's decision to grant nationality to more than 220 Nicaraguan exiles — was rejected by 336 votes to 186 , with 37 abstentions, a margin of 150 votes. The Greens/EFA, S&D and The Left formed the majority of the votes in favour; EPP, ECR, ESN, PfE and most of Renew voted against. As a joint motion for a resolution, this text is a non-legislative, non-binding instrument. It carries no direct legal consequences, but represents the Parliament's formal political position on the detention of named Nicaraguan political prisoners and the Ortega-Murillo regime's conduct — a signal intended to press the EU and member states to act and to put the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera on record at the highest parliamentary level. The rejected amendment would have added an explicit endorsement of Spain's nationality offer as a response to the regime's arbitrary deprivation of citizenship. Its defeat means that passage was blocked by a broad right-of-centre coalition: EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN voted almost unanimously against, and Renew joined them overwhelmingly, leaving the clause out of the final text. The vote revealed differences in views between the centre-left and left — who backed the clause — and the right and centre, who opposed it.
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