SANT PERE SULA.
with the identity card previous or with the new, those who received it in the last days, 5,137,304 from Honduras will be able to vote tomorrow for any of the nine pre-candidates presidential candidates nominated by three political parties celebrating the primary elections.
Initially, the National Electoral Council (CNE) considered that only 4,832,117 citizens appearing in the Definitive National Electoral Census they would exercise suffrage, but this week the authorities of this institution approved the use of special notebooks so that Hondurans who were left out of the register would make this constitutional right prevail.
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tables Hondurans will attend 23,880 receiving polling stations (MER), 7,960 for each party, installed in 5,691 polling stations across the country. |
seconds Rixi Moncada, Councilor of the CNE, in a letter sent to Sala Ana Paola, President of this body, detailed that 54,000 citizens were out of the census due to lack of biometric validation, 100,000 enrolled between December 30, 2020 and February 16 to be out of time and 1.6 million with problems with the polling station .
However, these citizens, with the decision he made the CNE, They can attend the polling place indicated by the census (www.cne.hn/censo) or attend the polling station visited in previous elections.
Citizens who have not received the new identity should turn away worries, according to the National Registry of Persons (RNP).
They will be able to exercise the suffrage with the above certificate.
In a statement issued this week, the RNP clarified, moreover, that the delivery center of the new National Identification Document (DNI) “is not necessarily the polling place”.
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Election keys Census. Before going to the polling station, it is advisable for the citizen to consult the final electoral census at www.cne.hn/censo to find out where to vote. Certificate. If you do not appear in the census, you must attend the polling place where you last voted. The citizen must present the identity (old or new) to the members of the receiving board. Ballots. Before voting, citizens have the opportunity to meet the three ballots (presidential, mayors and deputies) on the site http://aulavirtual.cne.hn. Ballots. Before voting, citizens have the opportunity to meet the three ballots (presidential, mayors and deputies) on the site http://aulavirtual.cne.hn. |
In this election campaign process, due to the covid-19, The three parties will have scattered 5,691 custodians (17,073) who will require all citizens to comply with biosecurity measures within the polling station.
Although there are custodians, epidemiologist Kenneth Rodriguez advises Hondurans to “redouble the measures, maintain the physical distance of two meters, wash their hands with soap and water and if possible use two masks.”
“Once the vote is exercised, don’t stay in the polls at polling stations,” he said.
So that the citizens arrive at the polls knowing what a ballot paper is like and know up to the notebooks that the members of the parties will use at the time of the scrutiny, the CNE has enabled on its website a virtual classroom .cne. hn).
But more than learning to mark a ballot is important, according to the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA), to know how to choose the candidates who this same year will contest election positions in a context of economic crisis and accusations of drug trafficking and money laundering.
“When you vote for a candidate, you not only give him power, but also money to his party; that’s why you have to choose people who don’t do it to deepen impunity,” the CNA said on Twitter.
Voter vote
Lester Ramírez, research coordinator of the Association for a Fairer Society (Transparency International), observes enthusiasm in young people (…), they want a profound change that will allow the country to move forward (…). Unfortunately, the electoral offer is very poor. “
Much of the population, says Ramirez, does not exercise suffrage in the primaries “because of the feeling of fraud produced and there are no guarantees that the vote will be respected,” moreover, the voter “is registered in the notebooks (and then in their databases) as a party activist and this can cause him “problems. Nor does the process give the possibility of crossing the vote at the levels of deputies and mayors.
Ramirez believes that this time, the vote will serve not only to choose, but to remove from the arena characters linked to corruption, drug trafficking and money laundering. “From this point of view, voting is strategic and not utilitarian. If one wants to have a strategic vote, really focused on sorting the cards on the table for generals, it is positive to participate in these elections”.
He thinks that not all citizens will vote, many of the independents are waiting for the generals to support Salvador Nasralla. “Nasrallah may be very inconsistent with your comments, but if there’s one thing you don’t have it’s queue for corruption and drug trafficking, ”he noted.
In the primaries, for the first time, two institutions that did not exist in the 2017 process come into play: the Electoral Justice Court and the Net Policy Unit as the body that oversees the financing of the campaigns.
“For the first time we are deploying a group of on-site auditors in six regions of the country. We have reached the different party collection activities, we are counting in different cities the advertising and propaganda that is on public roads, but in addition, with the support of the European Union and the United Nations, through UNDP, we will have a monitoring system to account for advertising and propaganda in the media to contrast the financial reports that the candidates will give us. it complies with the principle of accounting objectivity, “said Javier Franco, coordinating commissioner of the Net Policy Unit.
these elections, in Franco’s view, “more than important, they are decisive.” “First we go to primary elections with three consolidated parties, which gives them a leading role as key actors in democracy,” he said. According to Franco, citizens must take into account the message that the political party, movement or candidate offered in the campaign.
“It has to 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 is not seeing politics with transparency, is a politician who will generate very little contribution to country, ”he said.