Tegucigalpa, Honduras
He National Electoral Council (CNE) in Honduras defined this Thursday through a lottery the position that each internal current of the three parties that will participate in the primary elections of March 14, 2021 will occupy in the electoral vote.
In the National Party, Nasry “Tito” Asfura, of the Unity and Hope movement, was in first place, followed by Mauricio Oliva of the Juntos Podemos movement and current president of the National Congress. In the case of Loreley Fernández’s move, it was left out of the inscriptions.
The functions apply to the presidency formula, also appointed for candidates for deputies and mayors.
In the voting positions of the Liberal Party
CNE raised the positions on the Liberal Party ballots, leaving Yani Benjamín Rosenthal Hidalgo’s Yani movement in first place, Ángel Darío Banegas Leiva’s La Esperanza de Honduras movement and Luis Orlando’s Recovery Recovery movement in third place. Zelaya Medrano.
And he NPP announced that through the Partito Libertad y Refundación (Free) nine currents were registered, where six of them formed an alliance with Xiomara Castro in the presidential formula.
The other three candidates are Nelson Ávila, Wilfredo Méndez and Carlos Eduardo Reina.
Representatives of each CNE movement and advisers, Kelvin Aguirre and Rixi Moncada, arrived at the event.
According to the official calendar of the primary elections, on Tuesday, December 29, the CNE must deliver the final lists of voters, in the written and electronic press, to these political movements.
Of the 14 political parties that will run in the November 2021 general election, only three will do so in the domestic elections: the national, in power; Libertad y Refundación (Free), the leading opposition and liberal force.
Three political parties
One of the commissioners from NPP, Kelvin Aguirre, said that a representative of each current participated in the draw for the position that each movement of the three political parties that will participate in the internal elections will have. which are not necessary.
“For example, if a movement is in the first position, it will have the first 23 positions of the councils (of Francisco Morazán) and so on,” Aguirre explained.
In the internal elections, Hondurans will choose candidates for more than 3,000 popular positions, including president, three appointed presidents (vice presidents), 298 mayors and 128 deputies, according to NPP.
In addition, 128 will be elected candidate for MPs alternates before the local Parliament and 20 owners and an equal number of alternates for the Parliament of Central America (Parlacen).
primary elections and the internal elections in Honduras predate the general elections in November 2021, in which 14 political parties will participate.