Leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appears to have won the right to seek re-election in 2011 though opponents call the decision illegal and vow to fight it.\nThe constitutional commission of the Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ban on consecutive re-election and on serving more than two terms and the head of the Nicaragua s electoral commission said the ruling is final.\nOnly members of Ortega s Sandinista party took part in the ruling by the heavily politicised court.\nBut Justice Manuel Martinez the president of the Supreme Court and a member of the opposition Liberal Party refused to recognise the decision on Tuesday.\nOpposition leaders said the commission ruling was an underhanded power grab by Ortega who was first named president after the Sandinista rebels toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.\nJudges from the opposition Liberal Party were not present at Monday s vote and say it must be approved by the full Supreme Court. \nBut they lack the votes to overturn it because the death of a Liberal Party justice tipped the balance of the court to the Sandinistas.\nUnder a power-sharing deal the Sandinistas and Liberals each appoint eight members of the court and split influence over other agencies as well freezing out third parties.\nLatin American leaders such as Venezuela s Hugo Chavez Ecuador s Rafael Correa and Colombia s Alvaro Uribe also have manoeuvred to extend their terms in office.\nIn Central America leaders of the interim government of Honduras have accused ousted President Manuel Zelaya of attempting undo presidential term limits through a referendum on whether to revise the constitution. \nZelaya vehemently denies the accusations.\nOrtega left office in 1990 after opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro defeated him in nationwide elections. He was re-elected in 2006.\nMonday s ruling also would allow consecutive re-election of 109 mayors.\nThe Sandinistas made major advances in municipal November 2008 elections. \nBut accusations of widespread Sandinista fraud led the US and European authorities to suspend economic aid to the impoverished nation.\nOrtega has repeatedly sought ways to extend his stay in office often suggesting that Nicaragua adopt a parliamentary system that would let the dominant party s leader be head of government.\nOpponents say the president took his campaign for re-election to the courts only after he failed to secure enough votes in congress to amend the constitution. \nA Nicaragua political analyst said Ortega who won election in 2006 with less than 40 percent of the vote would not be assured re-election if he runs.