Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Liberal Party presidential candidate Yani Rosenthal attended the opposition meeting convened by the president on Monday Freedom and Refoundation Party (free), Xiomara Castro, to refine the first details of a possible party alliance for the November 28 general election this year.
Rosenthal arrived with several members of his campaign team at a hotel in the capital, where the meeting between liberals and free people is already taking place.
“People are asking for it and the math is clear, our alliance exceeds the number of votes of the ruling party. This is our opportunity to make history,” Rosenthal wrote on his Facebook account after meeting with Xiomara Castro.
Earlier, the Liberal candidate said that they had achieved the unity of the movement, “now the opposition alliance continues”. In addition, he assured that only in this way will it be possible to bring about positive change for Honduras.
CALL UNIT
After the results of the last primary elections on March 14 were made official, the candidate Free party, Xiomara Castro, convened opposition leaders to form a new alliance facing The National Party at the general elections in November this year.
“We are going together with the former candidates of the Free Party and, for next Monday, I invite you to start the dialogue between the opposition parties, Deci Rosenthal, Luis Zelaya, Salvador Nasralla, to form the alliance that will defeat the dictatorship and establish the country, “said the wife of former President Manuel Zelaya.
NASRALLA AND MENDEZ DO NOT ASSIST
The leader Salvadoran Party of Honduras (PSH), Salvador Nasralla, said that the alliances that Honduras needs must be convened by legitimate actors of the society, emphasizing at the same time that it will not participate in such an appeal made by Manuel Zelaya.
“In the coming days, we will appeal to all Hondurans who want to join a true and great alliance of unity. It is a call to the country’s living forces, clean and decent, who are willing to engage in dialogue,” Nasralla said in a statement. a statement released Monday.
In turn Former candidate of the Honduras Free Current Party of the Freedom and Refoundation Party, Wilfredo MéndezHe indicated at the time that he would attend the meeting convened by Xiomara Castro, but withdrew on Monday.
“I will not participate today in the meeting convened by the candidate Xiomara Castro, because the initial circumstances with which we were called have changed.
It was a meeting to bring together all opposition political leaders, “Méndez said.