Several delegations of international observers are arriving in Honduras, who will keep their eyes on the elections next Sunday. Many of them are questioning the attempts at intervention by movements, countries, and figures of the global far right, who seek to obstruct the democratic process of a sovereign nation. From Tegucigalpa, our correspondent, Roberto Hugo Preza gives us more details. teleSUR
00:00Several delegations of international observers are arriving in Honduras who will keep their eyes on the elections next Sunday.
00:09Many of them are questioning the attempts at intervention by movements, countries and figures of global far-right
00:16who seek to obstruct the democratic process of a sovereign nation.
00:22From Teutigalpa, our correspondent Roberto Gopresa has the details.
00:26More than 6.5 million Hondurans have been called to participate in Sunday's general elections.
00:35Ahead of the vote, official sectors have denounced plans of fraud and international interference promoted by the right-wing bipartisan bloc.
00:43The director of the Center for Cooperation and International Exchange find it strange that abroad there is a talk of possible unrest,
00:49when the reality here is different.
00:56I've been here for four days, and this country is absolutely calm, it must be said.
01:02People are safeguarding their vote, defending their vote, and that seems to me to be exactly what every people does, right?
01:09The only aggressiveness I see is from a very hard, very strong right-wing, which does not acknowledge any of the achievements that have been made.
01:22Philip Ristick is a French political scientist, author of the book Venezuela, the Democracy That Is,
01:34a critique of the spread of false information in media and social networks about Venezuela's 2024 electoral process.
01:40He notes with concern that the same script is now being applied in Honduras.
01:44Because the narrative is the same, there is a government, a power located on the radical left,
01:51that seeks a better distribution of wealth, more social justice, more economic justice, and environmental justice, as well.
01:59And that troubles a part of the political spectrum in Venezuela, as in Honduras, which is commonly called the oligarchy.
02:06Other international observers reacted with indignation to the intervention of far-right figures,
02:17such as U.S. Congresswoman MarĂa Elvira Salazar and Venezuelan politician MarĂa Corina Machado.
02:26I see this as a very serious attempt at intervention in matters that belong solely to the sovereignty of the Honduran people.
02:33I believe the most recent example we can see of this strategy was in Venezuela.
02:45Precisely to create an atmosphere that would allow sectors dissatisfied with the results to reject the people's verdict,
02:51proclaim themselves winners, and thereby drag the country into a spiral of political instability.
02:57The National Electoral Council has planned for more than 6,000 observers, both national and international,
03:09to be deployed throughout the country to verify the conduct of the process.
03:16Hondurans will go to the polls next Sunday to elect their new president, members of the National Congress,
03:21mayors, and deputies to the Central American Parliament.
03:24That's why.
03:25But for the change heaven to be put down for all longer longer in the first time,
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