Tegucigalpa.
He Honduran Parliament The fourth and final session of the 2018-2022 legislature will begin on Monday, in a unique ceremony for the covid-19 pandemic, in which Executive and judicial powers will present a report on the third year of practical work.
By law, each session of the Legislature is installed on January 25.
Secretary of Parliament, ruling party Thomas ZambranoHe said the fourth session would be “mixed” because only the bankers of the eight political parties represented in parliament and the board would attend the national congress.
He said that the rest of the parliamentarians will participate in the session through a meeting on the popular videoconferencing application Zoom. Zambrano, deputy of the National Party (in power).
The presidents of the Executive Powers, Juan Orlando Hernández and the Judge, Rolando Argueta, will present their report on their last year in office and zoom in from their offices, due to the urgency caused by the covid-19 pandemic, which left over 140,000 infections and 3,441 of deaths.
On the eve of the installation of the fourth session of Parliament, chaired by Mauricio Oliva, several national and international organizations have spoken out against a constitutional reform approved last Thursday that would give a “permanent character” to banning abortion and same-sex marriage. sex in the Central American country.
Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations System, Human Rights Watch and the Women’s Movement for Peace Honduras They are among the organizations that rejected the reform and called on Parliament to reconsider its ratification in the next legislature.
An absolute ban on abortion and equal marriage was approved on Thursday by 88 of the 128 deputies of the Parliament, with the dispensation of two debates in a virtual session.
Abortion has been criminalized in Honduras in all its forms since 1997, and several initiatives aimed at decriminalizing it in three cases, the risk of a woman’s life, fetal invisibility and rape, have not resonated among MPs.
The Honduran Constitution does not recognize same-sex marriage and for its legalization it is necessary to reform Article 112, which requires a qualified majority, 86 votes of the 128 deputies who make up National Congress.
On Monday, women in Honduras will commemorate their day by calling for an end to the violence affecting them in their country and calling on Parliament to reconsider an absolute ban on abortion in cases where the life of a pregnant woman is at risk of fetal fatal structural impairment, and when pregnancy is the product of a rape.