SAN PEDRO SULA.
With the identity card old or new, those who have received it in recent days, 5,137,304 Hondurans can vote tomorrow for one of the nine pre-candidates presidential election nominated by three political parties celebrating primaries.
Initially it was National Electoral Council (CNE) believed that only 4,832,117 civilians residing in the Final national election census they would exercise the right to vote, but this week the authorities of that institution approved the use of special booklets so that Hondurans left out of the register would triumph over that constitutional right.
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Tables Hondurans will attend 23,880 receiving polling stations (EIA), 7,960 for each party, installed in 5,691 polling stations across the country. |
According to Rixi Moncada, adviser to the CNE, in an official letter sent to Ana Paola Hall, the chair of that body, stated that 54,000 citizens were out of the census due to a lack of biometric validation, 100,000 registered between December 30, 2020 and February 16 because they had no time, and 1.6 million had problems with the election address.
These citizens, with the decision of the CNE, they can attend the election address as indicated by the census (www.cne.hn/censo) or attend the voting center attended in previous elections.
Citizens who have not received the new identity should allay the concerns, the National Register of Persons (RNP).
They can use the suffrage with the previous ID.
In a statement released this week, the RNP also clarified that the delivery center of the new National identification document (DNI) “is not necessarily the polling place.”
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Keys to the elections Census. Before going to the polling place, it is recommended that the citizen consult the final electoral roll at www.cne.hn/censo to know where to vote. ID card. If you are not at the census, you must go to the polling station where you last voted. The citizen must present the identity (old or new) to the members of the receiving table. Ballots. Before voting, citizens have the opportunity to view the three ballots (presidents, mayors and deputies) on the site http://aulavirtual.cne.hn. Ballots. Before voting, citizens have the opportunity to view the three ballots (president, mayors and deputies) on the site http://aulavirtual.cne.hn. |
In this election process, because of the COVID-19the three parties will have 5,691 custodians (17,073) who will require all citizens to comply with biosafety measures within the polling station.
Although there are guards, epidemiologist Kenneth Rodríguez recommends that Hondurans “double the measures, maintain a physical distance of two meters, wash hands with soap and water and use two masks if possible”.
“Once the right to vote is exercised, do not continue to hold meetings in the voting centers,” he said.
To get citizens to the polls, knowing what a ballot is like and even knowing the notebooks that party members will use when counting, the CNE has set up a virtual classroom on its website (http: // aulavirtual. Cne. Hn) .
But more than learning to mark a ballot is important, according to the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA), knowing how to select the candidates who will contest elected positions this year in a context of economic crisis and allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering.
“By voting for a candidate, you not only give power, but also money to his party; that’s why you have to choose people who don’t use them to deepen impunity, ”the ANC said on Twitter.
Debugger voice
Lester Ramírez, research coordinator of the Association for a More Just Society (Transparency International), notes “enthusiasm among young people (…), they want a major change that will enable the country to move forward (…). Unfortunately, the election offer is very poor ”.
Much of the population, says Ramírez, does not vote in the primaries “because of the sentiment of fraud that is being produced and there are no guarantees that the vote will be respected,” in addition, the voter is “registered in the booklets (and later in their databases) as a party activist and that can “cause you problems. Neither does the process fail to pass the vote at the level of deputies and mayors.
Ramírez believes the vote this time will serve not only to choose but to remove characters related to corruption, drug trafficking and money laundering. “From this perspective, the mood is strategic and not utilitarian. If someone wants to have a strategic vote, really focused on ordering the cards on the table for the general, it is positive to participate elections
He thinks that not all citizens will vote, a large part of the independents are waiting for the general election to support Salvador Nasralla. Nasralla may be very disjointed in his comments, but if there’s one thing he doesn’t have, it’s a corruption and drug trafficking, ”he said.
In the primaries, two institutions that did not exist in the 2017 process will play for the first time: the Electoral Court of Justice and the Clean Policy Unit as the supervisor of campaign financing.
“For the first time, we are deploying a group of on-site auditors in six regions of the country. We have arrived at the different collection activities of the parties, we are counting in different cities the advertising and propaganda that is on the public roads, but also, with the support of the European Union and the United Nations, through the UNDP we will establish a control system to to count advertisements and propaganda in the media to contrast the financial reports that the candidates will give us. This is in accordance with the principle of accounting objectivity, ”said Javier Franco, Coordinating Commissioner of the Clean Policy Unit.
This one elections, according to Franco, “more than important, they are decisive.” “For the first time, we are going into primaries with three consolidated parties, giving them a leadership role as key figures in democracy,” he said. According to Franco, citizens should take into account the message presented by the political party, movement or candidate in the campaign.
“It must be a synergistic and congruent message with transparency and accountability, because the democracy we are building lies in the type of politician. A politician who is not accountable, who does not view politics transparently, is a politician who will contribute very little to the country, ”he said.