SANT PERE SULA.
Officials, opinion leaders and well-known faces of the national future seek to be the presidential aspirants of their respective political parties.
Of the 14 political institutes enrolled in the National Electoral Council (CNE), three elect their representatives tomorrow for next November’s election process.
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Xiomara Castro de Zelaya leads 06:00 movements of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free). |
Some of the pre-candidates are running in the primary elections for the second time, such as Yani Rosenthal Hidalgo, who lost in 2012 against Maurici Villeda Bermúdez. Meanwhile, Luis Zelaya is once again looking to be the representative of the Liberal Party after being the candidate in the 2017 general elections.
For the Freedom and Refoundation Party (free), Xiomara Castro participates for the second time in the primary elections. In 2013, the former First Lady (2006-2009) became the first presidential candidate of the political party and also in the second Honduran to aspire to the Executive.
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The president of the National Congress, Mauricio Oliva Herrera, seeks to be the candidate of the National Party. |
Castro again won the candidacy of her party in 2017, but formed the Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship (or Free-Pine Alliance), led by Salvador Nasralla and in which she accompanied as presidential nominee.
Àngel Darío Banegas, Liberal MP for Cortés, aspires for the first time to be the Liberal Party candidate. Like the mayor of the capital Nasry Asfura and the president of the National Congress, Mauricio Oliva Herrera, for the National Party.
For his part, Carlos Eduardo Reina, from a liberal family for generations, aims to be the president of Lliure after joining this political party “by conviction”.
Also in his first attempt at the candidacy of Free is Wilfredo Méndez, that in the primary elections of 2017 looked for to be the aspiring to the mayorship of Central District.
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Darío Banegas is outlined with a great leadership in the Liberal Party of Honduras. |
expectations
In the opinion of Omar Rivera, executive secretary of the National Convergence Forum (Fonac), “internal and primary elections must be an exemplary democratic exercise, a successful prelude that precedes the general elections of the last Sunday in November 2021 and that guarantees absolute respect for the popular will expressed at the polls in search of ‘strengthen the institutionalization of the Honduran state.’
The civil society leader motivated “the Honduran population to participate in this electoral process according to their partisan preferences and to support the candidates for popularly elected positions of their predilection.”
He also considered that the massive participation of Hondurans in these internal and primary elections of political parties strengthens the democratic system “and is a first step for the November 2021 election fair to be successful.”
Pre-candidates interviewed by THE PRESS they motivated the citizenry to exercise their vote to achieve real change.
presidential candidates
Yani Benjamin Rosenthal Hidalgo
Family profile
Age: 55 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Claudia Madrid
Girls: 4
Place of birth and residence: San Pedro Sula
academic profile
Title: lawyer and notary
Trajectory and political positions
– He graduated as a lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) and in 1998 the Supreme Court of Justice gave him the title of notary public.
– Minister of the Presidency during the government of president Manuel Zelaya and replaced of the position in 2008 by Enrique Flowers Spear.
– Liberal deputy for Cortés in the period 2010-2014.
– Presidential candidate in his Yanista Liberal Movement.
– He served a three-year prison sentence in the United States for a crime related to money laundering.
Polling place
School: Dionisio de Herrera, district Stone River
designated
1. Yadira Hope Bendaña Flowers
2. Juan Carlos Elvir Martel
3. Aída Gabriela Zelaya Gómez.
A hard tackle from Àngel Darío Banegas to Leiva
Family profile
Age: 51 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Rosa Indira Raudales
Children: Angel and Abraham
Residence: Tegucigalpa
From: Santa Bàrbara
academic profile
Title: cartoonist
Trajectory and political positions
– During his adolescence he was a reporter and press correspondent and sports commentator on radio.
– For more than three decades he has been the editorial caricaturist of Diari La Premsa.
– Presenter of the Sunday program “Banegas” of the Corporación Televicentro.
– Since 2010 he has been a member of the Liberal Party in the department of Cortés.
– He has served as alternate secretary of Congress (2010-2014) and chairman of the education commission (2014-2022).
Polling place
UNAH (South Florence)
designated
1. Diana Noelia
García Anchecta
2. Marc Antoni
Garay Salgado
3. Zumaya Shrine
Prudot Bardale
Luis Orlando Zelaya Medrano
Family profile
Age: 53 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Lucía Acosta
Children: three
Place of birth and residence: Tegucigalpa
academic profile
Title: industrial engineer
Trajectory and political positions
– He is an industrial engineer graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
– Has a master’s degree in Business Administration.
– Postgraduate in Technology Administration and Technological Innovation at Unitec.
– Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance at Unitec.
– He received a postgraduate degree in Productivity and Quality from the University of Costa Rica.
– He won the 2017 Liberal Party internal elections and was a presidential candidate for this political party.
Polling place
School: Sotero Barahona school in the El Hatillo colony, Tegucigalpa.
designated
1. Nilia Sonia Lambert Cacho
2. Héctor Rodolfo Bueso Hernández
3. Hena Ligia Madrid Lizard.
Carlos Eduardo Reina García
Family profile
Age: 50 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Daysi Rhodes Valley
Children: 4
Residence: Tegucigalpa
Birth: Comayagüela
academic profile
Title: Law studies
and Political Science
Trajectory and political positions
– He studied English at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the city of Baton Rouge in 1992, in the United States.
– He studied Law at the UNAH and Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
– He also studied National Development at Fu Hsing Kang Academy in Taipei, a course from which he graduated with honors, winning the gold medal.
– It is the fourth generation of a family immersed in politics. In 2012 he joined the Free Party, thus breaking a centuries-old tradition of liberals in his family.
Polling place
Place: colony September 19, Tegucigalpa
designated
1. Helida Jimena Pau Oliva
1. Juan Ambrosio Savi Cacho
1. Lilian Adriana Aguilar Arita.
Jorge Nelson Ávila Gutiérrez
Family profile
Age: 68 years
Girls: 3
Place of birth and residence: Tegucigalpa
academic profile
Title: economist
Trajectory and political positions
– Holder of postdoctoral degrees in Economics, Higher Education Management, Political Science, Management and Public Policy. PhD in Economics, Development and International Finance.
– Experience of more than 25 years as a civil servant or international consultant.
– Head of negotiations and international cooperation and integration, strategies and policies in various countries and sectors, in global and regional bodies (UN, IDB, CABEI) in the states and private sectors in Latin America, USA, France and Africa.
– Speaks French, English, Portuguese and Italian.
Polling place
School: Policarpo Bonilla, Vila Vella village, Tegucigalpa.
designated
1. Ana Lucía
Galdámez Castellanos
2. Victor Manuel Ramos Rivera
3. Maria Lidia Cárcamo Perdomo.
Family profile
Age: 49 years
Marital status: divorced
Children: Lauren Sofia (21 years old) and Andrés Sebastià (19 years old).
Residence: Tegucigalpa
Place of birth: Sant Antoni de Flors, El Paradís.
academic profile
Title: lawyer
Trajectory and political positions
– Pre-candidate for mayor of Central District in the 2017 primary elections by the Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free).
– He held the executive direction of the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights (Ciprodeh).
– He worked as a lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Honduras.
– In his youth he was a volunteer for the Honduran Red Cross.
Polling place
School: José Pineda Gómez, de la Joia, Tegucigalpa.
designated
1. Fernando García, economist and lawyer.
2. Maria Luisa Borjas, commissioner (r) of Police and current deputy.
3. Beberlin Serazio, pedagogue and social leadership at SPS.
Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento
Family profile
Age: 61 years
Marital status: married
Husband: José Manuel
Zelaya Rosales
Children: Zoe, Héctor Manuel, Hortènsia Xiomara and José Manuel Zelaya Castro
Place of birth and residence: Tegucigalpa
academic profile
Degree: degree in Business Administration by maturity and experience
Trajectory and political positions
– Organizer of the women’s branch of the Liberal Party of Honduras in Catacamas.
– First Lady (2006-2009).
– She was the first presidential candidate for the Freedom and Refoundation Party in the 2013 general election.
– She was a presidential candidate or first vice-president for the Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship, which had Salvador Nasralla as its candidate.
Polling place
School: Álvaro Contreras, El Espino neighborhood, Catacamas.
designated
1. Renato Florentino Pineda
2. Melina Natalie Roque Sandoval
3. Lucky Halach
Medina Estrada.
Family profile
Age: 62 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Lissette del Cid
Girls: 3
Place of birth and residence: Tegucigalpa
academic profile
Title: unfinished studies in Civil Engineering
Trajectory and political positions
– Bachelor of Science and Arts from the San Francisco High School.
– Has been tied to the construction industry for over 35 years.
– He was a member of the administration of César Castellanos (QEPD) and was a councilor during the term of Mayor Ricardo Álvarez.
– He was elected deputy for the period 2010-2014, a position he temporarily left when he took over the Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS).
– He was elected mayor of Tegucigalpa for the period 2014-2018 and re-elected to office for 2018-2022.
Polling place
Francisco Morazán National Pedagogical University
designated
1. The Mireia of Carmen Agüero Trejo
2. Leonidas Rosa Baptista
3. Marta Julia Gutiérrez Flefil
Family profile
Age: 70 years
Marital status: married
Wife: Rina Rosario Brizzio
Children: three
Place of birth and residence: Choluteca
academic profile
Title: surgeon
Trajectory and positions
– In 1978 he received his degree as a doctor and surgeon at the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Honduras.
– Five years later he got his postgraduate degree in General Surgery at Hospital School.
– He has been a member of the National Congress since 2002 and has been re-elected four times. Since 2014 he has been the president of this state power.
– He has been councilor of the municipal mayor of Choluteca.
– He is a member of the Association of Physicians of the Southern Zone of Honduras and the Rotary Club.
Polling place
School: Maurici Arias Williams, Choluteca
designated
1. Carmen Cristina Moreira Solano
2. Leo Yamir Valentino Castelló Hirezo
3. Karla Zobeyda
Fernández Zelaya.