Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Tegucigalpa, June 28 – The ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) of Honduras will commemorate today the XVI anniversary of the 2009 coup d'état carried out by the military in collusion with conservative sectors against then-President Manuel Zelaya.
The commemorative events officially began on the eve with a large popular concert in the Olympic Village of Tegucigalpa, which was livened up by the Honduran group Café Guancasco and the talented Cuban singer-songwriter Raúl Torres.
As a culmination of the days of remembrance of the tragic event, members of Libre, a group led by Zelaya, will gather this Saturday in front of the Presidential Palace, where President Xiomara Castro will preside over an official act before marching to the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE, for its acronym in Spanish).
In addition to commemorating the breakdown of constitutional order 16 years ago, the peaceful demonstration will reach the CNE to protest against possible fraud in the general elections on November 30, which has been denounced by the progressive group's top officials.
At a press conference, the presidential candidate of the ruling party, Rixi Moncada, accused last week the right-wing parties National (PN) and Liberal (PL) of plotting this attempt at fraud in the upcoming elections.
According to Moncada, the two-party system, embodied by the Nationalists and Liberals, intends to replicate in the 2025 general elections a results transmission system similar to the one both groups imposed in the controversial elections of 2013 and 2017.
The presidential candidate denounced that the PN and the PL were plotting this scam through their two representatives to the CNE, composed of the three majority formations of this Central American nation.
She linked these alleged maneuvers to a strategy to manipulate the minutes of the polling stations through a procedure called a second public transcription, which she considered an illegal human interference that would violate the Honduran Constitution.
“The Libre party supports the denunciations of the incoming president, Rixi Moncada, against the attempted electoral fraud of the coup. Never again fraud", said the former president Zelaya on his social network account X.
The general coordinator of Libre denounced that the coup against him set back and plunged Honduran society, especially the poorest sectors, into a deplorable state of violence, looting, drug trafficking, backwardness, contempt, and indignation. (Text and photo: PL)
