TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.- The first official results of the primaries for the National Electoral Council (CNE) have led to bickering within the party Freedom and reaffirmation (Free).
Deputy Juan Barahona hinted during an interview with a radio station about a possible alliance with the “Yanista Movement”, led by Yani RosenthaHe, profiled as far as the virtual winner of the Liberal Party
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“Libre has proposed alliances with the various political and social opposition forces that want to do this and we don’t know what the position of the Yanista movement will be, but what we will not sacrifice in Libre is the candidacy for president,” said Barahona .
In addition, the congressman was referring to the three-year prison sentence Yani Rosenthal paid in the United States for money laundering offenses.
“He is now free and has served a sentence, we cannot doubt that and if there is a will to make an alliance, we can do it, but without negotiating the candidacy of Xiomara Castro‘he said.
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And he added that “we still don’t know the position of Yani (Rosenthal) or the base of the Liberal Party, they won and they will definitely want to run with their candidate in the general election. We are also ready to participate. will run in the general election, but with Xiomara Castro as candidate. It will be the product of talks, negotiations, proposals, counter-proposals to reach points of agreement, and if they happen, the alliance will certainly be reached.
“Honey” complains
Juan Barahona’s statements provoked criticism among the supporters of the Libre party, including the general coordinator of this political institution, Manuel Zelaya, He came out and assured that “they manipulated the statements.”
“Xiomara Castro’s high voice for the candidacy for the presidency of Honduras and the project of social and democratic re-establishment is non-negotiable,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Xiomara Castro is projected as Libre’s virtual winner, according to the first official CNE results bulletin. The former first lady wins with 76% of the vote, well over 15% of the vote Nelson Avila, a candidate of the “July 5” movement.