SAN PEDRO SULA.
Of the 117 MPs belonging to the three political parties, National, freedom and Refounding (Free) and Liberals, who will hold primary elections on March 14, 1991, are seeking re-election, equivalent to 78%.
Of the previous amount, 46 out of 61 deputies are from The National Party, 26 out of 30 belong Free of charge and 19 from 26 to The Liberal Party.
In the case of the remaining 26 legislators, the reasons for leaving the post are different.
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Some like Ángel Darío Banegas (PL) and Mauricio Oliva (PN) are presidential candidates. Others seek to be mayors of those municipalities, such as the liberal Bader Dip from La Ceiba and the nationalists David Chávez and Juan Diego Zelaya from the Honduran capital.
Also, the musician and deputy for Yoro, Pompilio “Pilo” Tejeda seeks to be the mayor of El Progreso in the movement of the liberal candidate Luis Zelaya.
Like Ronnie McNab Thompson, a Bay Islands MP who aspires to be the Roatán mayoral candidate for Yani Rosenthal.
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On the other hand, Sampedrano Leo Castellón is one of Mauricio Oliva’s presidential nominees, and Juan Carlos Elvir, a copaneco, accompanies the liberal Yani Rosenthal in this position.
María Luisa Borjas, Libre’s deputy for Francisco Morazán, is one of the presidential candidates of former candidate Wilfredo Méndez.
Meanwhile, Rodolfo “Fito” Irías Navas, a nationalist MP for Atlántida, announced his retirement from politics after taking a seat in 1982; that is, the beginning of the new democratic era.
In August last year, Francisco Paz, a congressman in El Paraíso for the Libertad y Refundación party, died in a covid-19. One month later, in September, nationalist MP José María Martínez, from Comayagua, died after a fight against throat cancer.
On the other hand, former Liberal MP Fredy Nájera is facing justice in the United States, where he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses. Óscar Armando Martínez, who was Nájera’s replacement and is currently in office, is running again as a candidate for the Yanista Movement.
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data 128 Members and their alternates. Number of people occupying a seat in the National Congress. In the March 14 elections, 91 of them are seeking re-election to office. 869 Bills. They were presented in the 2020 legislature, an atypical year because of the pandemic and because the parliamentary sessions took place practically. 1825 The origin of the National Congress. In that year, the first territorial demarcation was decreed and on December 11, the first Constitution of the country was issued, according to the historical archives. |
There are 11 legislators belonging to five political institutes that do not participate in the next 14 primary elections. They are Mario Noé Villafranca (UD), Felícito Ávila (DC), Osman Chávez (PAC), as well as Doris Gutiérrez, Luis Redondo, David Reyes and Tomás Ramírez (Pinu) and Karen Dinora Ortega, Bernardo Enrique Medina, Denis Castro and Dunia Ortiz (Patriotic Alliance).
In the case of Mario Noé Villafranca, he aspires to the municipal mayor of the central district through the current La Esperanza de Honduras, which is led by the liberal candidate Banegas.
For another re-election
With her candidacy, Martha Concepción Figueroa de Guevara is trying to get the eighth re-election as nationalist deputy for Santa Bárbara. Doña Chonita, as she is known to relatives and co-religionists, began her career in the Legislature in 1990, during the government of Rafael Leonardo Callejas (QEDP).
Also in the same year, nationalists José Celín Discua Elvir, for El Paraíso, and Óscar Ramón Nájera, for Colón, began their careers as deputies.
For 18 years, nationalist Rolando Dubón Bueso has represented Copán and Milton de Jesús Puerto Oseguera, Yoro.
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In 2006, Liberal MPs José Alfredo Saavedra Paz, from Valle; Mario Edgardo Segura Aroca, for El Paraíso, and Carlos Alfredo Lara Watson, for Choluteca. In addition, nationalists Oswaldo Ramos Soto and Antonio César Rivera Callejas, both by Francisco Morazán.
In 2010, the deputies of the National Party Alberto Chedrani, Welsy Vásquez, Yaudet Burbara, Elden Vásquez, Gladis Aurora López, Miguel Edgardo Martínez were elected for the first time. Also, the liberal Yury Sabas, from Choluteca.
Of the 46 re-elected deputies of the National Party, 30 come from the Unity and Hope movement, which nominates Nasry Asfura for the presidency. The remaining 16 are from the current Together We Can, led by the current president of the legislature, Mauricio Oliva.
In case of Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free of charge), the majority of Members aspiring to continue in Parliament are part of the Somos +, FRP, ROP and M-28 currents. Only Manuel de Jesús Mejía does it for Honduras Libre, of the candidate Wilfredo Méndez.
In the Liberal Party, of the 19 deputies running for re-election, nine do so for the Yanist current, eight for the Recovery of Honduras (Luis Zelaya) and two for La Esperanza de Honduras (Darío Banegas).
Some resources. Initiatives such as The Observatory of Power They try to educate the Honduran population about the functioning of the legislature in order to allow a closer relationship and a better relationship between people and officials. CN.
From the online portal elobservatoriodelpoder.com, users can consult information of interest to each deputy who is part of the period 2018-2022, in addition to the fact that they can make an x-ray and an evaluation of the management of each parliamentarian.
Also, at the end of each legislature, Democracy Without Borders Foundation (FDsF) and Honduras External Debt Social Forum (Fosdeh) analyzes legislative output through a public inquiry.