Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
According to the Electoral Law and Political Organizations, five days before the election propaganda and election campaign is suspended of political parties and initiates electoral silence.
The pre-candidates of the three political parties going to primary elections next March 14th they will have to suspend their propagandistic activities to the 12 of the midnight of this Monday 8 of March.
During the five days of electoral silence, candidates, leaders and leaders of political parties, alliances and independent candidates will only be able to use the media to explain, disseminate and disseminate their government programs.
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More than 4 million Hondurans are called to the polls on March 14 to choose candidates for more than 2,500 positions.
the parties National, Freedom and Refoundation (Free, first opposition force) i Liberal they are the ones to hold primary elections in the country, which returned to democracy in 1980 after nearly two decades of military regimes.
Missions of at least four international bodies and representatives of various countries to observe the primary elections in Honduras. One of the councilors of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Germán Llop, said that the Organization of American States (OAS), the European Union (EU), the Inter-American Union of Electoral Bodies (Uniore) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will monitor the elections in Honduras.
The total budget for the electoral process, which includes the primary elections of March 14 and the general elections of November 28, 2021, amounts to 1.760 billion lempiras ($ 72.7 million).
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The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras has planned a series of measures to implement the day of the elections to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. With 9,300,000 inhabitants, Honduras is going through a second wave of infections of the pathogen causing of covid-19 disease. Since the detection of the first two cases on March 11, 2020, the country has accumulated 173,729 cases to date, according to official figures.
By constitutional mandate the Armed Forces of Honduras are the ones in charge to transport and to take care of the material that is used in the primary and general elections.
The generals will wait
Minority parties, Christian Democracy, Democratic Unification, Innovation and Social Democratic Unity (PINU-SD), Anticorruption and the Honduran Patriotic Alliance, will not participate in the internships, but will go directly to the November general elections, in which the new president of Honduras for the period 2022-2026.
Neither will the Broad Front, the Christian Social Center party, the New Honduras Route, the Salvadoran Honduras party, the Democratic Liberation of Honduras and We Are All Honduras.