Tegucigalpa, Honduras
“In intense dialogue with @yanirosenthal, and based on my results, @partidolibre argued that it is my responsibility to lead the alliance. He asked for time. I will be sure to be the candidate. The technical teams will discuss other matters that we will agree on next Monday ”.
For example, Xiomara Castro, the presidential candidate for the Freedom and Refoundation Party, confirmed in a message via Twitter published yesterday at 5:14 PM, hours after yesterday’s meeting with liberal aspirant Yani Rosenthal, that all it got will be assuming that the candidacy of any alliance will be his.
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So the liberal and free parties started negotiations to sign alliances, but according to what Castro has written, the presidential formula will not be in issue. The meeting was attended by the elected presidential candidates, Yani Rosenthal and Xiomara CastroThe losers of the primary match were not in attendance: Luis Zelaya, of the Liberal Party, Wilfredo Méndez and Nelson Ávila, of the Free Party, but Carlos Eduardo Reina was.
In front of a sea of journalists waiting for them, Presidents Castro and Rosenthal expressed their satisfaction with the first outcome of the meeting, which had a positive outcome for them that will continue on Monday.
In this new appointment, Castro will invite de Pinu and the Christian Democratic parties, and Rosenthal will do the same with others, the liberal politician said. “The advancements we’ve made are the concepts we unite with; We are going in stages: the first is why we are joining, the second is how we are going to join and the third is who is going to lead the alliance, ”he said.
“We are like two brothers who have split up, the alliance is upon us and we hope we can achieve that by next Monday,” he said. When Castro was asked if he would give up his candidacy, he said: “Today (yesterday) there is no alliance with the presidency, to be negotiated, who will lead, we, in any case, in the alliance president we go not admit it, but on Monday we will put forward specific points.
Before the meeting ended, the Salvador Party of Honduras (PSH) coordinator Salvador Nasralla released a statement saying he would meet “unnamed actors in corruption and drug trafficking.”