San Pedro Sula.
Xiomara Castro, wife of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, wants to become the presidential candidate of the Libertad y Refundación party for the third time, to “ lay the groundwork and rebuild the country, ” she said on Sunday when she arrived at the school where she cast her vote.
Castro de Zelaya She presented herself as a “revolutionary woman, with beliefs and devotion to the Honduran people,” so she said that “the time has come for a woman to rule this country.”
The former first lady of Honduras (2006-2009) said she seeks the country’s presidency because she understands “the pain of a mother when her children don’t have the education they deserve, or when her children migrate because there are no opportunities in this country.
In this sense, he announced that in these primaries, the Libertad y Refundación Party will consolidate itself as the largest outside the opposition
Asked for an alliance to the National party, who has been in power since 2010, recalled that she had already given up her candidacy once. “We admitted to thinking that then we could find common ground so that the Honduran people could achieve the re-establishment of our country,” he said.
Xiomara Castro He assured that he has a promise to “fight to the end, until the dictatorship is lifted; I will not leave the alliance until I can verify that Honduras is free.”
In this sense, she asked citizens to trust her, because “I am a transparent woman with a life like that Honduran people can testify “.
To get the presidency of the country, Castro de Zelaya He assured that his government would lay the solid foundation of a “true democracy”, through a constitutional democracy.
And she concluded, “I am convinced that Honduras needs a woman who can rule.”