Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
According to the Law on Electoral and Political Organizations, five days before the elections propaganda and the election campaign are suspended of political parties and electoral silence begins.
Candidates from the three political parties running in the primary elections on March 14 next They must suspend their propaganda activities at 12 noon on Monday, 8 March.
In the five days of electoral silence, candidates, leaders and leaders of political parties, alliances and independent candidates can use the media only to explain, disseminate and disseminate their government programs.
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More than 4 million Hondurans are called to the polls on March 14 to choose candidates for more than 2,500 positions.
The parties National, freedom and substantiation (Free, the first opposition force) and Liberal They are the ones who will hold primary elections in the country, which returned to democracy in 1980 after almost two decades of military rule.
Missions from at least four international organizations and representatives from different countries will respect the primary elections in Honduras. One of the advisers to the National Electoral Council (NEC), Germán Lobo, said that 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 monitor the Honduran elections.
The total budget for the electoral process, which includes the primary elections of March 14 and the general elections of November 28, 2021, amounts to 1.76 billion lempiras ($ 72.7 million).
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The Honduran National Electoral Council (CNE) has planned a series of measures to be applied on election day to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. With 9.3 million inhabitants, Honduras is going through a second wave of disease-causing pathogen infections. covid19. Since the first two cases were detected on March 11, 2020, the country has accumulated 173,729 cases so far, according to official figures.
By constitutional mandate, the Honduran Armed Forces are responsible for transporting and caring for the material used in the primary and general elections.
The generals will be waiting
Minority parties, Christian Democracy, Democratic Unification, Innovation and Social Democratic Union (PINU-SD), Anticorruption and the Honduran Patriotic Alliance will not run in the by-elections, but will go straight to the November general election, in which Honduras’ new president period 2022-2026.
Neither Frente Amplio, Centro Social Cristianos, Nueva Ruta De Honduras, Salvador De Honduras, Liberación Democrático de Honduras and Todos Somos Honduras will do this.