TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- The first official results of the primary elections by the National Electoral Council (CNE) have provoked dimes and direts within the party Freedom and Refoundation (Free).
the deputy Juan Barahona insinuate during an interview with a radio station a possible alliance with the “Yanista Movement”, Headed by Yani Rosenthal, profiled so far as the virtual winner of the Liberal party.
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“Free has proposed alliances with the various political and social opposition forces that so wish and we do not know what the position of the Yanista Movement will be, but what we will not give in Free is the candidacy for the presidency,” he said. Barahona.
In addition, the congressman referred to the three-year sentence that Yani Rosenthal paid in the United States for money laundering offenses.
“He is already free and has served a sentence, we cannot question this and if there is a will to make an alliance we can do it, but without negotiating the candidacy of Xiomara Castro“, He said.
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He added that “we still do not know the position of Yani (Rosenthal) or the Liberal Party base, they won and will surely want to participate with their candidate in the general election. We are equally willing to participate in the generals but with Xiomara Castro as the candidate. It will be the product of talks, negotiations, proposals, counter-proposals to reach points of agreement, which if they are given will surely give the alliance “.
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Joan Barahona’s statements generated criticism among supporters of the Free Party, including the general coordinator of this political institute. Manuel Zelaya, Stepped in and said they “manipulated the statements.”
“Xiomara Castro’s high vote, for the candidacy for the presidency of Honduras and the project of social and democratic refoundation, are non-negotiable,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Xiomara Castro is projected as the virtual winner of Lliure, according to the first official results bulletin of the CNE. The first lady wins with 76% of the vote, well above 15% of Nelson Ávila, Precandidate of the “July 5” movement.