Tegucigalpa.
He Parliament of Honduras kicks off Monday at the fourth and final session of the 2018-2022 parliamentary term, in a unique ceremony for the Covid-19 pandemic, in which the holders of the Executive and judicial powers they will virtually present a report of their third year of work.
By law, every session of the legislature is installed on January 25.
The secretary of parliament, the ruling party Thomas ZambranoHe said the fourth session will be “mixed” as only the heads of the bank’s eight political parties represented in Parliament and the board of directors will attend the National Congress.
The rest of the MPs will join the session through a meeting on the popular Zoom video conferencing application, he said. Zambrano, deputy of the National Party (in power).
The presidents of the executive powers, Juan Orlando Hernández, and judicial officer, Rolando Argueta, will also release their report on their last year of management by zoom from their offices, due to the emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit Honduras. . left more than 140,000 infections and 3,441 dead.
On the eve of the inauguration of the Fourth Session of Parliament, headed by Mauricio Oliva, several national and international organizations have spoken out against a constitutional reform approved last Thursday that would make the abortion ban ‘permanent’ and gay marriage. in the Central American country.
Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations System, Human Rights Watch and the Women’s Movement for Peace Visitación Padilla de Honduras They are among the organizations that rejected the reform and asked Parliament to reconsider its ratification in the next legislature.
The absolute ban on abortion and equal marriage was approved by 88 of the 128 delegates on Thursday parliament, with dispensation from two debates in a virtual session.
Abortion has been criminalized in Honduras in all its forms since 1997 and several initiatives attempting to decriminalize it in three cases, the risk to the woman’s life, the fetus’ unfeasibility and rape, have not resonated with delegates.
The Constitution of Honduras does not recognize same-sex marriage and to legalize it it is necessary to reform Article 112, which requires a qualified majority, 86 votes out of the 128 deputies holding the National Congress.
Next Monday, the women of Honduras will commemorate their day by demanding an end to the violence affecting them in their country and by demanding that Parliament go back to approving an absolute ban on abortion in cases where the life of the pregnant woman is located. danger fetus suffers from a fatal congenital structural alteration, and when pregnancy is the product of one rape.