Tegucigalpa, Honduras
“In intense dialogue with @yanirosenthal, and based on my results, @partidolibre I argued that it is up to me to lead the alliance. He asked for time. I will stand firm in that I have to be the candidate. The technical teams will deal with others issues that we do agree on, next Monday “.
Thus, in a message via Twitter published at 05:14 pm yesterday, Xiomara Castro, the presidential candidate for the Freedom and Refoundation Party, reaffirmed hours after the meeting held yesterday with the liberal candidate Yani Rosenthal, that the only thing he takes for granted is that the candidacy of a possible alliance will be his.
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The Liberal and Free parties thus began negotiations to sign alliances, but for the writing by Castro the presidential formula will not be a topic to be discussed. The meeting was attended by the elected presidential candidates, Yani Rosenthal and Xiomara Castro, Did not attend the losers of the primary fight: Luis Zelaya, of the Liberal Party, Wilfredo Méndez and Nelson Ávila, of the Free Party, but Carlos Eduardo Reina did.
In front of a sea of journalists waiting for them, presidential candidates Castro and Rosenthal expressed their satisfaction with the first result of the meeting, which for them had a positive result that will continue on Monday.
In this new appointment, Castro will invite the Pinu and Christian Democracy parties, and Rosenthal will do the same with others, according to the liberal politician. “The advances we have made are the concepts by which we are unifying; we are going in phases: the first is why we are uniting, the second is how we will unite, and the third is who is going to lead the alliance,” he said.
“We are like two brothers who have separated, the alliance is imminent and we hope that by Monday we can make it happen,” he said. Castro, when asked if he would give up his candidacy, said: “Today (yesterday) there is no alliance in the presidency, this must be negotiated, the point of who will lead, we, at least in the “We will not give in to the presidential alliance, but on Monday we will bring specific points.”
Before the end of the meeting, the coordinator of the Salvadoran Party of Honduras (PSH), Salvador Nasralla, issued a statement in which he said he would meet “with unmarked actors in corruption, drug trafficking.”