Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In accordance with the Elections and Political Organizations Act, five days before the election the propaganda and election campaign is suspended of the political parties and the electoral silence begins.
The candidates of the three political parties going to primaries next March 14 They must suspend their propaganda activities next Monday, March 8 at 12 midnight.
During the five days of electoral silence, the candidates, leaders and leaders of political parties, alliances and independent candidates are only allowed to use the media to explain, disseminate and disseminate their government programs.
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More than 4 million Hondurans will be called to the polls on March 14 to choose candidates for more than 2,500 positions.
The parties National, freedom and reconfirmation (Free, first opposition force) and Liberal They are the ones to hold primaries in the country, which returned to democracy in 1980 after nearly two decades of military regimes.
Missions from at least four international organizations and representatives from different countries will observe the primaries in Honduras. One of the advisers to the National Electoral Council (CNE), Germán Lobo, said the Organization of American States (OAS), the European Union (EU), the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will follow the elections in Honduras.
The total budget for the electoral process, which includes the March 14 primaries and the November 28, 2021 general election, is 1.76 billion lempiras ($ 72.7 million).
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Honduras’ National Electoral Council (CNE) has planned a series of measures to be implemented on election day to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. With a population of 9.3 million, Honduras is experiencing a second wave of infections from the pathogen that causes the disease. COVID-19. Since the discovery of the first two cases on March 11, 2020, the country has collected 173,729 cases to date, according to official figures.
By constitutional mandate, the armed forces of Honduras are responsible for the transportation and care of the materials used in the primaries and general elections.
They will wait for the generals
The minority parties, Christian Democracy, Democratic Unification, Innovation and Social Democratic Union (PINU-SD), Anti-Corruption and the Honduran Patriotic Alliance, will not participate in the internal elections, but will go straight to the general election in November, in which the new president of Honduras for 2022-2026.
Neither the Frente Amplio, the Centro Social Cristianos Party, the Nueva Ruta De Honduras, the Salvador De Honduras Party, the Liberación Democrático de Honduras and Todos Somos Honduras.