Tegucigalpa.
the Parliament of Honduras will begin its fourth and final session of the 2018-2022 legislature on Monday, in a unique ceremony for the covid-19 pandemic, in which the holders of the Executive and Judicial powers they will present a report on their third year of tasks virtually.
By law, each session of the Legislature is installed on January 25th.
The Secretary of Parliament, the official Tomás ZambranoHe said the fourth session will be “semi-face-to-face” as they will only attend the National Congress of the bench leaders of the eight political parties represented in Parliament and the board.
The rest of the parliamentarians will participate in the session through a meeting for the popular video conferencing application Zoom, he said Zambrano, Member of the National Party (in power).
The presidents of the Executive, Juan Orlando Hernández, and the Judiciary, Rolando Argueta, will present their report on their last year of management also via zoom from their offices, due to the emergency caused by the covid-19 pandemic. which in Honduras has left more than 140,000 infected and 3,441 dead.
On the eve of the installation of the fourth session of Parliament, its head is Maurici Oliva, several national and international organizations have spoken out against a constitutional reform approved last Thursday that would give “permanent character” to the prohibition of abortion and same-sex marriage in the Central American country.
Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations System, Human Rights Watch and the Women’s Movement for Peace Honduras are among the organizations that have rejected the reform and called on Parliament to reconsider its ratification in the next legislature.
The ban on absolute abortion and equal marriage was approved on Thursday by 88 of the 128 deputies of the Parliament, With dispensation of two debates in a virtual session.
Abortion has been penalized in Honduras in all its forms since 1997 and several initiatives seeking to decriminalize in three cases, women’s life risk, fetal unfeasibility and rape, have not resonated among MPs.
The Constitution of Honduras does not recognize same-sex marriage and to legalize it is necessary to reform Article 112, which requires a qualified majority, 86 votes of the 128 deputies who make up the National Congress.
This Monday, the women of Honduras will commemorate their day by demanding an end to the violence that affects them in their country and demanding that Parliament step back in approving a ban on abortion in cases that endanger the lives of women. pregnant woman, the fetus suffers from a congenital structural alteration of a fatal nature, and when the pregnancy is the product of a sexual rape.