Honduras chooses two country models | More than five million Hondurans are voting this Sunday

Honduras will decide this Sunday For the continuation of the two-party system for more than 100 years National Party (Ruling Party) and Liberal Party Or by his first progressive left government Violent incidents in which more than 30 people were killed in the election environment. Yani Rosenthal points out in the investigation of the Pandora documents, along with nationalist candidate Nasri Asfura and the Liberals, Leftist Libertad y Refundación (Libre) candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Liked in all polls. However, the history of fraud in the 2017 elections, which marked the second term of Juan Orlando Hernandez (National Party), is one of Honduran’s concerns (Hernandez’s election in 2017 was contested by the OAS but approved by the United States). In this sense, UN calls on authorities to ensure peaceful, transparent and genuine elections

Electoral environment

Some 5.2 million Hondurans are on the voter list They will elect a new president this Sunday, with 128 delegates from the National Congress (unicameral), municipal mayors and representatives to the Central American Parliament (Parlesen). In total, about 3,000 public offices. Honduras does not have a second round at the presidential level, so the candidate with the most votes wins the general election.

This Sunday there are 5,755 polling stations and 18,293 polling stations, 20 of which will be voting overseas, where only Hondurans can participate in the presidential election, distributed at Honduran embassies in 14 cities in the states. United States and 6 Central American countries. The Honduran people in Central America can exercise their right to vote at Honduran embassies in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize.

The electoral environment was marked by political violence. According to the Violence Monitoring Organization of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, They have recorded at least 31 politically motivated murders in the past year. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday expressed her “deep concern” about political violence in the electoral structure in Honduras. The UN office described the campaign violence as killing 29 people, including 63 cases of political violence, 14 attacks, seven cases of intimidation and one abduction.

Conspiracy and militarization of the country

With the 2009 coup as the immediate root of Honduras’ current political and economic crisis, these elections are being touted as an opportunity to break with the two traditional parties that have alternately been in power since the beginning of the 20th century. 12 years rule of the National Party. The Central American nation retreated on the path of militarization and the influence of the dominant elite. Gustavo Arias, director of the Center for Democratic Studies (CESPOT) for the regional news agency.

In the aftermath of the coup, Arias says, “the state is a plunder to drain its resources, evade finance and use its repressive tools to its advantage. Refers to the growing militarization. “The military has re-established itself as a central player in public administration, a role institutionalized by the National Security and Security Council,” he says. The feature that Arias pointed out was created in 2013 Military Police of Public Order (PMOP), “initially completed with temporary intervals, permanently, taking over security tasks”.

Candidates

Of the 14 candidates for the presidency of Honduras, only two have the support of a majority of voters.On the one hand, the Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party candidate, Siomara Castro received 38 percent of the vote According to the October Census of the Center for Democratic Studies. Since the founding of Libre in 2011, the party that united the Honduran opposition in the aftermath of the coup has established itself as one of the country’s favorite left-wing organizations to maintain traditional group dominance for more than a century.

Castro, a partner in ousted President Mel Jelia, has a government proposal Aims to expand rights and combat corruption International Commission against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras at the request of the United Nations. Another important aspect of his government program Repeal of the Organic Law on Employment and Economic Development Zones (ZEDE), Which establishes Zones of the National Territory subject to special rule that allows investors to manage financial, security and conflict resolution policies. “To create employment and growth in the country, we do not have to sell our sovereignty. We are going to build that trust that people demand,” Castro said, wanting to prevent abortion for three reasons: life-threatening woman’s mother, pregnancy being the result of rape or fetal miscarriage. Honduras currently has one of the most restricted laws for pregnant women seeking access to abortion.

On the other hand, they Traditional candidates. Who is second in the poll The ruling right-wing Nasri Asfura, With one With 22 percent of the vote in mind, Pandora is one of the politicians indicated in the documents. He was known as “Bobby A la Orton” for the slogan he used in campaigns for the mayor of the capital. He has been the mayor of Tegucigalpa since 2013 and seeks the continuation of the National Party. “His candidacy reflects nearly 12 years of misrule for the country and once again a victory will wreak havoc on the country, the years of governments devastating to Honduras.”Honduran political analyst Efrin Thias Arvillaka told the Honduran radio station Radio Progresso. PL’s Yani Rosenthal is in the far third place with 3 percent of the vote. Rosenthal held a deputy position between 2010 and 2014. This year he completed 36 months in prison in the United States, where he was charged with corruption and money laundering related to drug trafficking.