Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Chairman of the Salvador de Honduras Party, Salvador Nasralla, stated that the call of the General Coordinator of Libertad y Refundación, (Libre), Manuel Zelaya, “will fail” because he is “not a good interlocutor”.
Nasralla did not participate in the primaries of March 14 in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) named the nationalist presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, Xiomara Castro of Libertad y Refundación (Libre) and Yani Rosenthal of the Liberal Party as winners.
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However, Nasralla was defeated by current president Juan Orlando Hernández in the 2017 general election when he led the opposition alliance in which Libre participated.
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Zelaya and his wife Xiomara Castro have called on opposition parties to one opposition alliance against the National PartyIn this sense, the TV presenter said that “the previous experience we had with Mel Zelaya’s phone calls failed because I remember that on October 19, 2019, he called on Luis Zelaya (former Liberal candidate) and me to raise the issue of demobilization. to discuss that the country would stop as a result of the disasters that occurred ”.
“That was a year and a half ago, but it was a failure, so it’s very likely that this meeting he’s calling is a failure because I don’t think he’s a good interlocutor,” he warned.
“So I would, with all affection and respect, tell Mel that what Libre has to do is join the alliance of people who are clean,” he suggested.
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The Honduran political opposition is aware that only in a strong and consolidated alliance will they have the opportunity to be strong candidates in the November general elections and face the National Party.
In Honduras, two alliances of the opposition before the November elections, the first between Liberal Party’s Yani Rosenthal and Libre’s candidate Xiomara Castro.
On the other hand, the losing candidates of these two parties in the internal elections, Luis Zelaya, Darío Banegas of the Liberal Party; Wilfredo Méndez and Nelson Ávila de Libre, accompanied by Salvador Nasralla, intend to form an alliance called “Los Honestos”.