TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.-Amid the controversy over the delay of the National Electoral Council (CNE) To announce the results of the primaries, held on Sunday, March 14, this Friday, the trends lean towards the candidate of the Yanista movement, Yani Rosenthal.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has already issued the third bulletin, and at the discretion of the liberal aspirant imprisoned in the United States and accused of money laundering, the trends will “continue”.
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Yani, with a total of 148,075 votes in his favor, leads Luis Zelaya with 66,095 marks, assuring them to be “bloated ballot boxes”.
On March 19, the CNE counted a total of 309,086 votes from the Liberal Party, of which 272,102 are valid votes, 14,977 invalid and 22,007 blank.
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Following the official announcement of the CNE’s first results, Darío Banegas decided to join Luis Zelaya to demand transparency in the process.
“What has the CNE done in those studies that we don’t know what minutes they are from? Until yesterday (Thursday) they gave us the password to enter the minutes repository and that cut they showed is tending to the departments from Copán, Yoro, Lempira, Thank God and Santa Bárbara, ”asked Zelaya during a press conference he held this Friday.
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Zelaya assured that most of the election records had been falsified and wanted to hide that his liberal movement had won the March 14 primaries.
“Those bloated ballot boxes of 900 (or) 1000 votes, when the electoral tax was 400, we will not accept them. This is just an introduction to what will be in November,” he stressed.
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Questioned Honduran businessman Yani Rosenthal, who was guilty of money laundering in the United States and returned to the country after serving his sentence, wants to “fight corruption and drug trafficking” with his candidacy.
The lawyer by profession is originally from the industrial town of San Pedro Sula, where his family – which was one of the richest in Central America – lived in comfort thanks to the empire his father, the late Jaime Rosenthal, forged.
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He studied at the International School (bilingual). He graduated as a lawyer from the National University. He later became a civil-law notary.
He then started his fight in the Liberal Party, where he campaigned 12 times to be in power.
“This is my 13th campaign within the Liberal Party, between internal and general,” he said in an interview with THE HERALD.
Today, Yani is emerging as the next liberal candidate for the presidency of Honduras.
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