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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Honduras voters will choose candidates from the three main parties on Sunday to compete in the general elections for the month of November for the presidency in a country that is still deeply extreme, but they are skeptical of leaders from the left and right who failed to achieve security and technicians.
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The elections come at a time when President Xiomara Castro – the first leader in Honduras – has a tense LIBRE party tense relationship with the United States.
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The possibility of ending access to an air base used by the US military for regional operations has sparked that it would withdraw from the delivery treaty that sent its predecessor to the United States for drug smuggling, before eventually retreating. Her extended family was exposed to allegations of ties with drug dealers.
Marko Rubio, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Honduras, left the flight line when he made his foreign trip to Central America last month since he held this position.
On Sunday elections will provide voters options to continue in the form of Defense Minister in Castro, Rixi Moncada, who has the support of the president. Moncada's refusal to resign from his post has been criticized to run for positions, in part due to the fact that the army is accused of protecting votes.
The former first lady Anna Garcia provides the ability to return to the recent past because she seeks to nominate the National Party of Honduras. Her husband, former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, belongs to the party.
Hernandez is serving a 45 -year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking. In her closing campaign, she played an audio recording of her husband, saying, “The vote for Anna is a vote for me, a vote for a better life.”
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The Conservative Liberal Party in Honduras is a confrontation between two people who once supported Castro, but it became opponents.
One of them, Salvador Nasala, helped Castro win the presidency in the 2021 elections by ending his independent nomination to join her alliance. He held the position of Vice President, before leaving the administration, saying that he was marginalized.
The other is Jorge Calix, a young lawyer and politician, and he was previously a member of Libre, but he left after Castro failed to support his attempt to lead Congress.
Nasala expressed her admiration for the President of Argentina, Javier Millie, while Calix says he wants to simulate heavy security policies of the famous President El Salvador Naeb Bokil.
Calkes said: “If the millennium generation does this in El Salvador, then why can't thousands of millennium like me do so here.”
In total, 10 candidates will compete for the nominations of the three parties.
Eleven parties will choose its youngest candidates through their internal operations at other times.
Voters will also choose in the ballot races in Congress and the mayor. About 5.8 million Hondors are qualified to vote.
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Participation in the open preliminary elections was historically low, due to fears that his identity with one of the parties could limit job opportunities if another party candidate wins in November.
Political analyst Miguel Calix said that he hoped that the introductory elections will be transparent and without problems, but this was not always.
He said: “The initial voices were historically the worst electoral exercises in Honduran democracy,” noting that they were full of violations.
Hondors is looking for clear proposals on security, jobs, corruption and a faltering health care system.
Low levels of foreign investment in recent years have fed a high unemployment, which continues to push Hondur to deport in search of opportunities.
Constant violence is another factor that pushes Hondurus from their homes. Street gangs run blackmail through fear, and drug dealers benefit from Honduras geographical site to take advantage of medicines moving north towards the United States.
Political analyst Lewis Leon said that the preliminary elections are less important than the general elections, because if the parties do not offer their best candidates, voters will have bad options in November.
“Three candidates for the presidency and one of them will have the ability to be president,” Lyon said. “That is why the best man or the best woman should appear with a plan to solve the country's problems.”
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