Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Liberal Party presidential candidate Yani Rosenthal attended the opposition meeting convened by the presidential candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free), Xiomara Castro, To fine-tune the first details of a possible party alliance ahead of the November 28 general election this year.
Rosenthal arrived accompanied by several members of his campaign team to a hotel in the capital, where the meeting between liberals and freemen is already taking place.
“The people demand it and the math is clear, our alliance exceeds the number of votes the ruling party has. This is our chance to make history,” Rosenthal wrote on his Facebook account after his arrival at the meeting with Xiomara Castro.
Earlier, the Liberal candidate said they achieved the unity of the movement, “now the opposition alliance continues.” In addition, he assured that only in this way will it be possible to have a positive change for Honduras.
CALL TO UNITY
After formalizing the results of the last primary elections on March 14, the candidate of him Free Party, Xiomara Castro, Called on opposition leaders to form a new alliance that in the face of National party in the November general election this year.
“We are going to unity with the former candidates of the Free Party, and for next Monday, I invite you to start the dialogue between opposition parties, So Rosenthal, Luis Zelaya, Salvador Nasralla, to form the alliance that will defeat the dictatorship and refound the homeland, “said former president Manuel Zelaya’s wife.
Nasralla and MÉNDEZ DO NOT ATTEND
The leader of the Salvadoran Party of Honduras (PSH), Salvador NasrallaHe said that the alliances that Honduras needs must be convened by legitimate actors in society, at the same time that he stressed that he will not attend this call made by Manuel Zelaya.
“In the coming days, we will call on all Hondurans who want to join a true and great alliance of unity. It is a call to the living, clean and decent country forces that are willing to engage in dialogue,” he said. Nasrallah in a statement released Monday.
For its part the exprecandidato of the free internal current Honduras of the Party Freedom and Refoundation, Wilfredo Méndez, Noted at the time that he would attend the meeting convened by Xiomara Castro, but this Monday recanted.
“I will not attend the meeting called by candidate Xiomara Castro today, because the initial circumstances with which we were called have changed.
It was a meeting of all opposition political leaders, “said Mendez.