On January 21, the provisional president of Congress was elected in Honduras. But, contrary to what was expected, not all the deputies of the presidential party followed the instructions: twenty of them decided to support a dissident member of the party, and the session took on the air of a rat race. .
“President Xiomara Castro has not yet taken office, in Honduras, that she is already facing her first political crisis”, abstract The country.
This Friday, January 21, when Parliament was to elect its provisional president, Liberty and Refoundation (Libre), Castro’s party, had planned to unite behind candidate Luís Redondo. A twist: twenty of its deputies defected and chose to support “Jorge Cálix, a dissident from Libre”, which won the vote thanks to the votes of the right-wing opposition, explains the Spanish daily.
Tensions rose and some MPs hoisted themselves up to the lectern, where they began beating each other while throwing water from the seats. ‘Traitors! Traitors! ‘ shouted Libre’s elected officials. “
Xiomara Castro also denounced a “treason”, on his Twitter account, and announced the exclusion of 18 deputies in the process. The designation of the presidency of the Parliament will however not be final until January 23, still indicates The country. That’s four days before Castro officially takes office as president.
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The first woman elected to head Honduras, she is also the wife of former President Manuel Zelaya, ousted by a coup in 2009. The left-wing candidate relied, during the November 28 elections, on an alliance with the Savior of Honduras Party (PA). By virtue of this alliance, he is the president of the PA who was to nominate the candidate for the presidency of Parliament. His choice fell on Luís Redondo, and it was when “Libre elected officials have begun to express their rejection” once morest the latter that the crisis arose within the presidential party, explains The country.
As for Cálix, he was able to count on January 21 on “the 44 votes of the National Party, the movement in power for 12 consecutive years and which is led by outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernández”, suspected by American justice of having links with drug trafficking.
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