Tegucigalpa, Honduras
He National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras determined through a lottery on Thursday the position that any internal movement of three parties that will participate in the primary elections of March 14, 2021, will take in the election vote.
In the National Party, Nasry “Tito” Asfura, of the Unity and Hope movement, was in first position, followed by Mauricio Oliva of the Juntos Podemos movement and current president of the National Congress. In the case of Loreley Fernández’s movement, it was omitted from the inscriptions.
The functions apply to the formula of president, appointees and candidates to deputies and mayors.
In the Liberal Party positions of the ballots
The CNE raffled off the positions on the Liberal Party ballots, leaving Yani Benjamín Rosenthal Hidalgo’s Yani movement in first position, Ángel Darío Banegas Leiva’s La Esperanza de Honduras movement, and in third position the Restorative Honduras movement led by Luis Orlando Zelaya Medrano.
Him too CNE announced that nine currents were registered by the Partito Libertad y Refundación (free), six of them forming an alliance with Xiomara Castro in the presidential formula.
The other three candidates are Nelson Ávila, Wilfredo Méndez and Carlos Eduardo Reina.
The event was attended by representatives of each of the movements and the CNE councilors, Kelvin Aguirre and Rixi Moncada.
According to the official calendar of the primaries, the CNE is to provide final lists of voters, in print and electronic media, to these political movements on Tuesday, December 29.
Of the 14 political parties that will participate in the November 2021 general elections, only three will participate in the internal elections: National, in power; Libertad y Refundación (free), first opposition force and liberal.
Three political parties
One of the commissioners of the CNEKelvin Aguirre said a representative from each tendency has participated in the draw for the position that each move will have of the three political parties that will participate in the internal elections. that are not required.
“For example, if a movement is in the first position, it has the first 23 positions of the councils (from Francisco Morazán) and so on,” Aguirre explained.
In the internal elections, Hondurans will elect candidates for more than 3,000 popular positions, including president, three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 298 mayors and 128 deputies, according to the CNE.
In addition, 128 are chosen candidates in front of alternates deputies for the local parliament and 20 owners and an equal number of deputies for the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).
The primaries and internal elections in Honduras are ahead of the November 2021 general election, in which 14 political parties will participate.