Tegucigalpa, Honduras
“In an intense dialogue with @yanirosenthal and based on my results, @partidolibre claimed that it is my responsibility to lead the alliance. It took time. I will remain firm that I must be the candidate. The technical teams will discuss other issues on which we agree next Monday. “
Thus, in a message via Twitter published yesterday at 17:14, Xiomara Castro, the presidential candidate for the Freedom and Refoundation Party, reaffirmed a few hours after the meeting that took place yesterday with the liberal aspirant Yani Rosenthal, that the only thing given it goes without saying that the candidacy of a possible alliance will be his.
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Liberal and free parties have thus begun negotiations to sign alliances, but according to Castro, the presidential formula will not be a matter for discussion. The meeting was attended by the elected presidential candidates, Yani Rosenthal and Xiomara CastroThose who lost the primary competition did not participate: Luis Zelaya, from the Liberal Party, Wilfredo Méndez and Nelson Ávila, from the Free Party, but Carlos Eduardo Reina participated.
In front of a sea of journalists waiting for them, Presidents Castro and Rosenthal expressed their satisfaction with the first result of the meeting, which for them had a positive result that will continue on Monday.
In this new appointment, Castro will invite the Pinu and Christian Democracy parties, and Rosenthal will do the same with others, according to the liberal politician. “The progress we have made is the concepts through which we unite; We are going in stages: the first is the reason why we join, the second is the way we will join, and the third is who will lead the alliance “, he said.
“We are like two brothers who have separated, the alliance is imminent and we hope that by next Monday we will be able to achieve it,” he said. Castro, asked if he would give up his candidacy, said: “Today (yesterday) there is no alliance with the Presidency, which must be negotiated, which is the point that will lead, at least, in the presidential alliance we will not give up, but on Monday we will brings concrete points.
Prior to the meeting, the coordinator of the Salvadoran Party of Honduras (PSH), Salvador Nasralla, issued a statement saying he would meet “with anonymous actors in corruption and drug trafficking.”