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00:00Today in the afternoon, at five, when the polling stations are closed, there is no
00:26going to be doubt. Thank you very much.
00:39The Hondurian people is going to go to the polls. Apart from the adversities, I am seeing
00:48that the experience that we are living in this stage, democratic stage, is very important.
01:00And today will be the destiny of our country for the next decade. I am faithful about the
01:09Honduran people, apart from the obstruction, the actions of complots, and I ratified to
01:17the Honduran people the defense of the sovereignty, the defense of the results through the thousands
01:31of members of the reception. The first results are going to be done just by the electoral
01:48officers. So we include the fundamentals of the 26 audios and hints that there is a plan,
02:01an alliance to interfere in the process. We are going to take into consideration for our
02:09people's will. And of course, today, this morning, that is very fresh. I am very happy to be
02:28here with our major that is not leaving. He's going to stay. And for sure, he will at the
02:37poll too. The results are only one. The popular sovereignty, the people is going to put their
02:53votes, and that vote must be counted, certified in an act, and must be, they have to take care
03:02from here and the movement that they do, and our army, and our people after the convoys, not to have
03:14any incident about it, and to be a pacific process, an uninterrupted process. What we live in, 2017, 2009, are
03:28going to have to ensure that this process would be in camp as successful as it should be.
03:38Honduras is a country, a beautiful country, that is very rich, and we have a proposal, a concrete
03:46proposal, a concrete government to develop and transform Honduras, mainly for the youth to defend the public, and to
03:56and to keep on with investment and education, and help to be free, and the public enterprise, enterprises
04:08are public, to guarantee those services to the Honduras and people. But above all, to democratize the economy.
04:18We have to pay taxes. We have to pay taxes. We have to develop the country together, helping women, helping the self-employee,
04:30and persuade women. This country has many riches, and I am hopeful that there is a woman that is prepared to govern the destiny of this country,
04:46respecting the norms, respecting the norms, fighting for the development, and to fight against the cartels,
05:00the criminal cartels, people that are avoiding to pay the taxes. This country is very rich, and its people work every day.
05:14Just we have to put the rules, and to apply the law, and to help the small ones to go up. There are going to be many
05:24opportunities for working with the democratization of the economy, and this is very full.
05:30are you afraid about this interference from the U.S.? Also, are you afraid about the interference from USA? Well, yesterday, I answered about that topic, and I know that the people from Honduras has to make use of this date. I said to the 18 departments of the country, that is not violence. Everything is violence.
05:58Everything is in camp. I am in my polling station in the basic Central America East School, where I've been 30 years living in this colony where my children grow up that are together with me, and the voting is pacific. So go, everybody. We have to put attention to how the process is being developed. It is
06:26fundamental that people go to the polling station. I am listening to your question. It is not something that is strange, because they have always done it. And we have always defended our
06:45our foundations principles of our independence, our independence, sovereignty, and we will keep on doing it. We are standing. People are standing. We have gone through the worst moment. 2009, there was a moment. 2013 was a bad moment. 2017, it was a scandalous fraud, and we could keep on walking, fighting, pacifically, so that you are looking at us right now.
07:14From 2013, our mayor was a candidate. 2017, again, with hope. And people are here present. Nobody is going to deceive you, no matter what campaigns they do. Do you think the people is going to favor you? I am a winner already,
07:37We are already come. We are victorious right now. We are victorious right now. We survived facing violence from the weapons in 2006. We survived to the 2013 fraud and 2017 again. We defeated the dictatorship in 2021 with
08:05Yomara. And today, and today, the people is going to mark the road, and the road is to keep on. We have to check all the history, that it is very important. The assassination has been always our people. We are, we have been victims from violence that we condemn permanently from word, and we are going to condemn more.
08:35We are from facts. We are pacific and democratic. I'm sorry, and I am sorry that it is not here in this opening of this civic party, and hopefully,
09:05The presidential candidate for the Libre Party, Rizzi Moncada, who arrived just a few minutes ago to this school, Central America Este, in where she has lived during her life, as she has said, over 30 years, she has lived in that region.
09:29And she's arrived here with her family. We're seeing her daughter next to her. She's arrived here to take part in the electoral process that began at 7 p.m. local time in Honduras.
09:40As she announced yesterday in a press that she gave, she was going to be here at the very opening hours of the polls to be part of this election day.
09:50Let's continue listening to the presidential candidate.
09:52To watch the counting of votes at the end of the polls, just to watch the clearness of this election.
10:08What is your final message?
10:11Your final message to the Honduran people to go to vote in these elections.
10:15Don't let allow anyone to define our destiny. Let's go to the polls.
10:22Let's use the right that we have to vote.
10:25We support not only this day, but all the popular consultations to the Honduran people.
10:34People are going to decide their destinies.
10:37I'm going to speak about different topics that are of national interest.
10:41The message people to come to vote without fear in this pacific process after the opening.
10:49They are informing us that we are counting just down.
10:55And I'm sure in this color, people is going to come massively to vote.
11:02Regretfully.
11:03The 19th, there are voting polls in some states in the USA.
11:16I hope that they vote over there according to the possibilities, because you know the condition
11:22that our migrants live in the United States.
11:25Why people are voting for Rixi Moncada, because she's betting to continue the refundation for democracy
11:34in the economy, because she's betting for a sovereign project to be benefit from the family,
11:42from the 10 million Hondurans, and not a light project for oligarchy.
11:48So oligarchy, our people are afraid about when Orlando comes back, it is a field of drug with
11:56Orlando, and New Yorkian trials condemn him to 45 years.
12:04Because thousands of millions of cocaine, he introduced in that country, he infected that country.
12:14Their interest, 25 economic groups from the 10 families went over there.
12:21And we have to find out.
12:22With time, we are going to find out what is behind this indulge.
12:26Indulge, because if it is done, if this pardon comes to what Donald Trump said, that it's going to come,
12:38that pardon is not for free.
12:43The 25 groups and the 10 families are asking for it, because the two candidates that they sent to the voting,
12:52they were bad.
12:56It is that us are keeping relations, respectful directions, and sovereign relations with the USA.
13:07We respect that nation, and we respect its people.
13:15Among the people live thousands of Hondurans who are serving, that are working in that country.
13:22Then we respect the North American people.
13:26We have commercial relations with them.
13:29We have defense relations, immigration relations, human relations.
13:35We inhabit the same continent.
13:37Then it would be absurd to think that we are going to establish barriers.
13:44We have an international, open international policy, the self-determination of the people.
13:53We are solidarity with, solidarity with the peoples in the region.
13:58And we think that international relations among countries should be done, because we cannot be isolated.
14:07We respect their decision, though we do not go in the same line.
14:11There are 57 politicians, they are condemned by as narco-trafficants.
14:23And Xiomara Castro began that transition in these almost four years in the government, and we have to keep on going on with the refundation.
14:35The results are extraordinary in security matters, in defense matters, economic matters, social matters, in infrastructure, in energy.
14:50In almost four years, there are results.
14:52We have to keep on doing that.
14:55Investing in the country, investing in people.
14:57That is why the important test to democratize the economy.
15:08Well, the proofs are there.
15:10Independently, the pardon is to say, look Capo, you trafficked 400 million
15:24of causes you traffic 2 400 million of doses you traffic traffic this keep this many kilos
15:39of cocaine a trial a trial and a judge come then here in USA here are the proofs you were number
15:51you were the president in Honduras you were condemned to 45 minutes proof are not going
15:57to disappear but we're going to pardon two days before the elections general elections what do
16:03you think about it it is an interest resolution it is a resolution that is no doubt that have
16:17been done by the oligarchs in this country because the two candidates were a failure and then they
16:25brought the one who drove this country with three trays of blood something with no president in
16:34history people have to decide their destiny today between two narco dictatorships come back that has
16:43two candidates in this election or their reputation continues I am sure what the Honduran people is
16:52going to do I have no doubt about it I travel all over the country in its 18 department and with a big
17:00satisfaction I tour the country and people open their arms and heart doors to the refoundation
17:08project tourism on cara to continue the development and transform in this country I have no doubt about
17:16it which you think that things in 12 years seven months poverty decreasing 20% today in almost four years it has
17:34been reduced in a ten percent Honduras is a country without justice and we are claiming for justice and we are
17:45waiting for the investigators act and the police the judicial power act without any contemplation against impunity
17:56what is the trail of 12 years seven months not only narcotrafic we are not saying that just and only they are
18:05condemned in New York more than 57 policemen mayors politicians from the bipartidism that one that they want to have in
18:17these sports competing now but the call to the population is to come to vote for our destiny that is democracy that is
18:26why we are fighting for clear election without any trick that is why we do not accept this tricky the tricky train
18:35that was on the cna because it is a train that do not give guarantees they are involved in the transmission of the
18:47result for us the the valid result is the certifier the the results that are going to be by the junters in a very clear way
19:00well we continue to to see life as the presidential candidate is waiting to exercise her right to vote let's listen
19:18the basic education in our colony with our major that is he's going to keep on he's not going to leave
19:29he's going to be benefit by the massive vote that our people in Tegucsipalpa we are still waiting that
19:38the receptor uh junts finish to to count the vote the voting papers and the call to the hondurean people
19:52keep on just watching control especially just the counting to have a control on the county they have to go to the
20:03polling station just to keep there it is uh to be clear to guarantee results
20:09in the satisfaction and the legitimacy of the people
20:19in the satisfaction and the legitimacy of the people
20:23the uh
20:25the uh
20:27on hondurean people was truthful about the results on that year and they were satisfied about the legitimacy
20:35who could be measured when the people accept the process now there are 26
20:45that there is a plan
20:50to say at 9 9 pm to someone else who's who hasn't worked that is a hint that is enough about the criminal
20:59plan that could not cross unseen in a country that is trying that is boosting uh refoundation process
21:11after
21:17no i will be around in the capital
21:23so we were listening to the statements of the presidential candidate he's simon cara who arrived
21:28here in the very early hours of the opening of the polls to exercise her right to vote in these
21:33general elections on sunday november 30th a general election that kick started at 7 pm local time in
21:38honduras by the national electoral authorities and as the presidential candidate announced yesterday in
21:43a presser she will be in the very early hours at her designated voting center in the neighborhood
21:49where she has lived for over 30 years in sent in the colony central america este in the school that
21:54also varies carries the same name the presidential candidate is waiting to go to exercise her right
22:02to vote she was offering statements to the press before doing so where she referred to the main
22:07topics to come into the elections and call on the people of course to go out and vote and to continue
22:12trusting the refoundation project and she was calling on the people to not let anyone from abroad
22:18anyone decide their future but call on the people to decide for themselves and to do so
22:23through the democratic vote in this sunday's general elections we have to recall that not only this
22:30election only is to elect the next president for next four years of the country but the citizens of
22:35honduras will be electing 128 deputies of the national congress as well as 20 deputies of the central
22:42american parliament and 298 municipal mayors with and over 6.6 million hondurans are called to
22:50participate in this electoral day we're seeing the presidential candidate for the libre party rizzi
22:56moncada preparing to enter the polling station where she is in when she is enlisted to carry out her
23:04civic duty and exercise her right to vote voting in honduras is not compulsory and everyone over 18 years of
23:12age is allowed to exercise their right to vote the presidential candidate rizzi moncada of in her
23:20statements here previous to the moment of her casting her ballot she was also once more denouncing the
23:27interfering actions coming from the united states as we saw in the last couple of days coming straight
23:32from the presidency of that north american nation where president donald trump said that he would make
23:39unconditional all kind of international cooperation and aid to honduras on the fact that the candidate
23:47that he supports wins the election which is uh sfura with something that is completely illegal in
23:54international law as no foreign power is allowed to interfere in an electoral process in in a foreign
24:03country as stipulated in the united nations charter he also cheap the presidential candidate also referred
24:11to the other in dealer plot that has been discovered throughout these days during the campaign period
24:19which was the leaking the leaking of audio recordings that link uh the other presidential candidate with
24:27the authorities of the national electoral council referring to the fact that they would use
24:32the early transmission system what they refer in honduras as trep which is the early transmission
24:37system of their results that is done electronically digitally and as she as the presidential candidate
24:43was saying over 10 over 10 private companies are the ones in charge of this system and referring
24:50on that subject on that topic the president candidate said that they would not they would not recognize
24:55they would not acknowledge the results coming from that early transmission system as it has been clear and
25:01evident that there is a plot to try to thwart the electoral will the popular will of the honduran people and what they
25:11will what she will recognize she said is the will of the people which will be reflected in the acts of every
25:19voting center which will be transmitted and for that purpose she called on the people to be vigilant
25:24and to protect the vote and to make sure that all the vote counting and all that process and the
25:30the drafting of the voting acts are done in accordance to what is stipulated in law we are now seeing
25:38the presidential candidate for the liberal party we see mongada going through the different stages of the
25:42voting process she is now going through the biometric part of the identification of her identity
25:48identity and where she is gonna what is where the system acknowledged that she is herself that she is
25:58recent mongada is part of the of the process to make sure that all the people that vote are part of the
26:05electoral role as we are seeing she's going through that electronic process and the identification that she's showing that
26:12her identity information as registered in the biometric system and from that moment on she will carry out
26:21with her idea and receive the different the different voting cards the the the papers to move forward and
26:30exercise her vote later introduce those those that electoral paper inside the ballot boxes which of course are
26:38sealed and will continue to be sealed until the closing of the polls and the moment that the vote counting
26:43begins a moment that the president candidates has called on everyone to be sure that it's done correctly
26:49and the results of that of those transmission of those acts are the one that herself and the and her party
26:57will recognize following all the different plots that have marked this presidential campaign this electoral
27:03campaign in honduras general elections which have been denounced and with with proofs we're referring to
27:11the audio leaks that were that the audios that were leaked that were definitely proof of the intention to try to
27:19hijack that early transmission system to try to deceive the honduran people and to be providing results which are not in
27:27accordance with what the people really took on what the really people really decided for at the voting tables
27:36so as we were saying we are live in honduras presidential candidate for the liberal party rissy
27:42moncara is continuing with her different checks to carry out her votes and in this sunday general elections
27:50she was offering statements as we were saying before casting her ballot well she also referred to
27:57their recent decision of president donald trump as part of the of its acts of interference in the honduran electoral
28:03process on the pardon of the of a for of the former president that was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug
28:11trafficking the president that was in power from 2017 to 2021 the president that lost
28:16in 21 the elections and that was charged with over government officials majors politicians for drug
28:24trafficking in a new york court that's that's something that she highlights that is not them saying
28:29that they are drug traffickers and criminals they have been convicted tried and sentenced by a new york
28:35court with all the evidence that is there for everyone to see and that even if donald trump pardons
28:41former president this evidence will not disappear is clear she said that it's clear that there are
28:47certain interests coming from that decision and which this also comes in a context we must remember
28:54that currently the united states he has a very strong military deployment in the caribbean on the
29:00the alleged excuse of fighting drug trafficking and and then we can see very clearly the hypocrisy of the
29:07u.s politician the u.s policies towards the latin american region on one side they're saying they
29:12are doing that to fight drug trafficking but on the other side they are willing to pardon someone that
29:17has been convicted by the u.s courts to 45 years for drug trafficking with clear evidence but when it
29:24serves their interest is evident that everything they are doing is to serve their interests as they are
29:29doing in the case of the deployment which in the korean which is clearly to take over the natural resources
29:35of south america especially venezuela which is the intended target in these latest pressures military
29:41aggressions in the region we are seeing the candidate christy moncada now exercising her vote she's behind
29:49the behind there that desk because of course the vote is private she's is choosing for all the different
29:56candidates must remember that it's not only the presidential election that is taking place it's a general
30:01election so the country is deciding for a president among five candidates although three are the ones
30:08that are on the leading on the leading position of these of these presidential elections but hondurans
30:15will also be deciding on 20 deputies of the central american parliament as well as the 298 municipal
30:21mayors and also the 100 deputies of the national congress of the country that's what the honduran people
30:29is deciding to date in this voting election in these general elections that are taking place and that
30:34open in time at 7 a.m at 7 a.m local time in honduras and will continue to run throughout the day
30:44until 5 p.m local time as and in case an extension is needed it can the voting time the voting schedule
30:52can be extended until 6 p.m local time there we are seeing that the presidential candidate has already
30:59chosen for who to for whom to vote and now she's going forward with to deliver the documentation
31:07and will in a moment when once that those papers are confirmed we are seeing there they're putting the
31:14stamp to confirm the legality the validity of those papers now she will move forward and deposit the
31:22her votes in the corresponding ballot boxes which as we were saying one is for the deputies one is for
31:27the presidential and one is for the majors in which are all the the the electoral options that are taking
31:35place today in this sunday november 30th general elections we are seeing the president casting her vote
31:42vote in all three ballot boxes as we were saying
31:49and with that the vote is completed the presidential candidate for the liberal party has officially
31:55cast her vote in this sunday's general elections as she said she will be among the first to be
32:01at her designated polling station polling station to take part on this democratic process we are going to
32:07see if the presidential candidate offer statements after casting her ballot she was offering them before
32:13when she arrived when she got off her vehicle now she's receiving the the final the final identities of the
32:21make the vote valid where she will stamp her fingerprint we're seeing there the process
32:34and with that it's official the vote was completed rizzi moncada the candidate for the libre party
32:40the liberty free foundation party has exercised her right to vote in this sunday's general general elections
32:53the press the presidential candidate has called on the people to be part of this festive moment to be
32:58part of this democratic day and to make sure that the people decide for themselves what they want for
33:04their future she made it clear that hondurans have today two options they have the option to vote
33:11for the return of the drug dictatorships that the country experienced after the coup d'etat 2009
33:17against the then president manuel celaya a coup d'etat that was supported orchestrated by the united
33:24states back then and that was followed by two electoral frauds one the first one in 2013 the second one in
33:312017 and in 2021 the honduran peoples recovered democracy in in the country with triumph of president
33:39omar castro now we are seeing the presidential press the presidential candidate rizzi moncada
33:46abandoning the voting the polling station where she just exercised her right to vote we're going to
33:52stay attentive to see if she offers any more declarations after casting her ballot as we were saying
33:59she called on the people to vote on those two to decide on their future on those two options that the honduran
34:03people have today the return of the drug trafficking dictatorship that the country experienced from
34:102009 to 2021 or to continue believing to continue putting their trust in the re-foundation project
34:17which has shown positive results in since yo mara castro entered the presidency in 2031 as he was
34:24referring with the reduction of poverty which has been a clear example of the results of the policies
34:29implemented by president Xiomara Castro as well as many other different policies that have been
34:36implemented during these four years of the re-foundation project which has strengthened the health
34:41system the education system and social welfare and all the different kinds of policies that have been
34:47put in place in the benefit of the honduran people and for the continued development path of the nation
34:54to continue to achieve their development goals and their their will their destiny that they want to
35:02achieve the country that they want to build for their honduran people and for their that common
35:07generations for the sons and daughters that are to come in the hondura for the honduran people the
35:13presidential candidate said during her statement that she will remain here in the in the capital of the
35:19country in the honduran during the during the whole electoral day she was going to remain in the capital
35:26area as the election unfolds he of course he also called on the people to participate to protect the
35:33peace of the election to protect the transparency of the election and to stay and to vote to not stay
35:40at home to vote to make sure that the will of the people of honduras is reflected on the voting on the
35:45voting on this voting day we're seeing the honduran presidential candidate is preparing to leave the
35:52voting center the school where she voted where she exercised her vote just few minutes ago in
35:58central america este part of the colony central america este the the neighborhood where she has lived
36:03for the past four years and in a school that very carries the same name central america este
36:09and let's see if the presidential candidate is offering statements
36:25well in the presidential candidate is getting on her vehicle it seemed that she was offering statements
36:32we didn't get to listen to them but we we listened to the ones before voting and
36:38she called on the people to be part of this democratic process and this electoral party
36:43and with that it is completely official the presidential candidate is now abandoning the voting
36:47center and is heading to the residence where she is going to be waiting for the whole electoral process
36:54to carry out which has been as we were saying open in time at 7 a.m local time and over 6.5 million
37:00honduras are going to be going to the polls this sunday to elect on the future on their next destiny
37:06of the honduran nation and its people for the next four years the presidential candidate was clear the
37:11honduran people have two options two two choices to choose from today which is the return to the drug
37:17dictatorship that existed before 2021 or to continue putting their trust in the refundation project
37:24which has shown which has shown positive results in these last four years of term of the president
37:30mara castro and the continuity that recently represents of continuing to building policies
37:35for the benefit of the well-being of the people of honduras so stay tuned with teresa ring is we're
37:41going to be following up everything that is happening today in honduras throughout the election day
37:45so stay with us we'll have more updates in upcoming news briefs
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