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President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, arrives at voting center to cast her vote and offers statements. teleSUR
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00:00Ejo, happy to be here in your town. Happy, always. Always happy.
00:19I think that among us, to be here in the Olancho Department, we are always happy to be here.
00:30This is our house. Here we grow up, and my family too. My mother was born here too.
00:40President, this call to the Honduran people. Mission accomplished.
00:46President Xiomara Castro, who has just arrived to this locality, to this voting center, to exercise her right to vote, alongside her partner, Manuel Zelaya, is the person you can see to her left with the hat.
01:08Both the President Xiomara Castro is coming here to exercise her right to vote.
01:16And in these key general elections that have been taking place in Honduras for the past five hours almost, since 7 a.m., when the voting stations opened to the public.
01:30As we are saying, the President is advancing among the crowd. Lots of journalists who are trying to get a picture and trying to ask questions.
01:40We want to see if the President offers any more statements.
01:44So far, the election day has been moving forward in peace and tranquility, although there have been some reports of issues with the biometric system in some areas that have made the process go slower.
01:58I believe the former President's lies of the statements. Let's listen.
02:06Whatever conflicts, we have to finish. We are democratic.
02:10And of course, we are here today. It's because in these pools, we are going to have always a very national victory.
02:20Logically, people know who they are going to vote. A woman is going to come after another woman.
02:30We have to be optimistic. We have to go to the pools. We are pacific. Do not let us to be...
02:42What projects are going to be approved. I don't have any doubt that the triumph is going to be whole, not just apart.
02:58All we have won. I don't know why we could today have the biggest volume today.
03:10Well, we are pacific. The violence is going to make good details. They are the ones who have that element of reaction.
03:28The Coordinator General of the Libre Party, Manuel Zelaya, and President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, are getting closer to the voting area where they are going to exercise their right.
03:38We have seen a large crowd of people that have gathered around them to welcome them as they enter this polling center,
03:46where both the President and former President, Manuel Zelaya, will exercise their right to vote in Sunday's elections.
03:53We were listening to statements from the now Coordinator General of the Libre Party, Manuel Zelaya,
03:59who was making a call to vote to the people to go to the polling stations and to make their voice heard in this democratic process
04:07and also expressing optimism as they believe that the Honduran people will carry on with their vote and with their vote will decide the right path for Honduras moving forward,
04:21which is following the Refoundation Project, which has been in place for the last four years under the Presidency of Xiomara Castro, the first women President of Honduras,
04:32and that during these four years has managed to achieve important results during her Presidency with the implementations of key policies for the betterment of the life of Honduras.
04:46In this case, we have different indicators that show the increase in economic life, for example, in Honduras with an increase in trade and in production in the nation,
04:56as well as the strengthening of the health system to make sure that Hondurans have access to quality health services, as well as the reduction of poverty,
05:07which has been also one of the main focus points during her Presidency and during her campaign back when she was running for the Presidency of the nation.
05:16Well, we are seeing now that both the Coordinator General of the Liberal Party and President Xiomara Castro have entered the polling stations where they are going to exercise their right to vote.
05:26They have presented their ID. They are now greeting the personnel that are here at the voting table and they will carry on with the due process to exercise their vote.
05:38As we have mentioned, they go through the biometric check of the registry to confirm their identity. As we are seeing there, we are seeing the President Xiomara Castro putting her fingerprint in the Biometric Service to confirm her identity.
05:55The former President Manolo Zelaya will do the same later. And from there, they receive, of course, the papers, the election ballot, the ballots to exercise their right.
06:06Let's recall that Honduras is voting today, not only for the Presidency, but also for all the 128 deputies of the National Congress, as well as 20 lawmakers of the Central American Parliament,
06:23and over 298 municipal mayors. That's what is being decided today in Honduras. And there we are seeing the President Xiomara Castro exercising her vote. She was handed three different ballots where she will decide in private, of course, as the vote is secret. And then we'll follow up with putting the ballots on the corresponding ballot boxes, which are free, all in accordance to the
06:53elections that are being made here today by the Honduran people.
07:00Earlier in the day, we also saw the candidate, Risi Moncara, the presidential candidate for the Liberal Party, who exercised her right to vote. We are seeing on the right side of the screen that the Coordinator General Manolo Zelaya's offering statements. Let's listen.
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07:32Julieções Valiantoconf iba a president to vote. She's going to...
07:36At least she's going to... to vote for her successor. I am going to vote-en-the other arm.
07:42And she's going to be with me over there, of course.
07:45there's a message for a politician because they are waiting in spite of they wanted another
07:52president wanted to interfere in honduras we are waiting for decimal gotta to be
07:59while you refer to foreigner expression let let let let it let it apart they are foreign
08:07expression it's not the opinion of the hondurian people and if i am asked about the best definition
08:15that they have about political donald trump gave it he calificated him as not trustful
08:23he defined him very well
08:29castro también que está acá en este sector y procede a ingresar
08:36las papeletas a las urnas también a secretario de la presidencia
08:42according to your party manuel celaya so my castro we were seeing on the left of the screen as she was
08:49choosing her decision in this voting process and now she will move forward to deposit to
08:56put the ballots inside the ballot boxes as she cast her votes in the general elections recall
09:04for the president of the nation for the next four years for the 128 deputies of the national congress
09:10for the 20 deputies to the central american parliament and then 298 municipal mayors with
09:16and we are seeing there simona castro alongside her family doing this and putting the different
09:23ballots on the corresponding ballot boxes and after that she will have her fingerprint also taken
09:31to confirm that she completed the voting process as we were listening to the coronary general manuel
09:39celaya referring when he was asked referring to the interference of foreign countries in the honduran process
09:47electoral process specifically it's coming from the united states with president donald trump endorsing
09:53openly one of the right candidate right-wing candidates which and put the condition of the any kind of aid
10:02and cooperation from the u.s going to honduras on the can on the fact that that candidate that he
10:07endorses wins the election the elections and the opinions they've when manuel celaya was clear and
10:13said that those opinions are foreign and have nothing to do with the will of the people and they will be
10:19there left abroad and they won't impact the will of the honduran people which are designed democratically
10:25today their future the path that the country will follow and regarding the other in presidential candidate
10:33that is also running in this race he also made reference to president donald trump who himself declared that
10:40he was completely untrustworthy and completely and a bad candidate for president for the country
10:48so the president Xiomara Castro has completed her voting exercise here we are going to follow now see if
10:56she offers any any statements following her vote as she will now accompany her partner manuel celaya to
11:04the other polling station where he's supposed to vote let's let's listen
11:11nationales internationales medios de comunicación de gran relevancy in nuestro país también
11:18a nivel internacional ellos han estado observando este proceso abierto democrático pacífico el
11:25mismo asesor presidencial jose manuel celaya rosales lo ha dicho somos pacíficos estamos en este proceso
11:30en este proceso que se desarrolla en paz y tranquilidad sir si felices de poder compartir
11:34well we didn't get to listen to the statements of the president Xiomara Castro they are now going
11:41to move to another voting table where the coordinator general of the libre party manuel celaya will exercise
11:49his votes and will now be a company as well by his family we're now seeing them entering the other voting
11:56table here at this voting center she's where the coordinator general of the libre party manuel celaya
12:03will exercise his right to vote in this sunday's general elections we're going to continue tune with
12:10what is happening live in honduras see if we have more statements coming from the president of honduras
12:16so from the coordinator general of the liberal party as they exercise their right to vote we are seeing
12:22there manuel celaya go through the same standard protocol as president Xiomara Castro went through
12:28just minutes earlier to a confirmation of his identification of his id with the biometric
12:35system and then we'll carry on with the ballots to go to this to the private area to exercise his vote
12:42and then put them in the corresponding ballot boxes as the konduran people continue to follow
12:48this important electoral electoral process that is that will define the future of the nation for the next
12:54four years we continue to have all this information live coming straight to your screens here from
13:02interest of english and the coordinator general manuel celaya is preparing to exercise his boots we were
13:10talking earlier about the statements that they were given coming in coming to this electoral process and
13:19both the president Xiomara Castro and manuel celaya have expressed their optimism and they have
13:25welcomed the the democratic will the democratic attitude of the honduran people that have come out in peace
13:32and have gone in large numbers in to the different polling stations across the country's 18 departments
13:39which have reported long lines in the different voting centers to part as they participate in this electoral
13:47process as we call that over 6.5 million hondurians are a racer in the electoral roll and a call to
13:54exercise their vote in this sunday's key general elections that are taking place right now will continue
14:02to take place until 5 p.m local time local time and in the case of an extension if an extension is needed
14:10it will be extended an extra hour until 6 p.m local time and with the first results coming the first
14:17premier results coming roughly three hours later and the president Xiomara Castro is offering statements
14:25she's speaking let's see if we can hear what she's saying
14:33oh it seems that we don't have the sound of the microphones of of the president let's see let's see
14:39i had the opportunity like millions of hondurians that are voting today
14:56that is it is a very special day for democracy in our country especially
15:01the same i would like to invite all the hondurian people to go to come out and vote in this special day
15:14for honduras
15:19people that i think it is important
15:23this four years we have built institutionalism and today it is reflected when we see the function
15:34that is doing the the army the police we are arriving to the uh polling stations and they have been repaired
15:47and there were some of them were found in very bad condition today we have seen that our boys
15:54and our girls are receiving a proper education in those five thousand five hundred centers that we have
16:04already ready ready at the service of the people mission accomplished mission accomplished i think that
16:13the satisfaction that we feel it is it goes beyond about what i think and i wait what what i believe
16:21that is that is the thinking of the people it has a very important value for me
16:27to see and receive from every sector and the money manifestation expressions mainly in the area that we have been
16:40in hospitals hospitals road projects
16:51just the attention in the agriculture
16:56the attention in the environment in the special area that we have intervened i think
17:03the hundred hundred hundred is ready to take off it is a refundation process and today we can say
17:12that when we are close to the millennium in the supply that establish the reduction of poverty the extreme
17:22poverty it this says that we are in a good way
17:30well the truth is that we
17:33we are very clear that international expressions for us
17:44we can take we can take them into account but the most important thing it is the people the manifestations of the people
17:53the legacy that you live look there is a little before i was uh doing a list of all that everything that we have done
18:08in health hospitals
18:12attention centers emergency center 68 emergency center hospitals that we have visited
18:20to the
18:25to the
18:25to the supervision three days ago
18:27in infrastructure roads airports schools
18:33agricultural institutes
18:36also in the security and defense that is very important for our country
18:40the fighting against narco traffic
18:43the defense in our sector especially
18:45how we have reduced
18:50the number of homicides in our country
18:55homicides
18:56when you reduces 97 percent of fire of wildfires
19:04that for us
19:06has a very important meaning just like in all areas honduras today
19:11it is
19:13strengthened with their state institutions i would like to add also the energy
19:20theme i would like to mention everything we are not going to finish today but the most important
19:26is
19:26that the people
19:29has seen
19:31and they can
19:34measure just the effort that we have done and that for me is fundamental
19:37people are voting massively
19:48where the law established that criteria if there are people just on the line they have to wait till
19:56everybody vote that of course it is the e
20:00the end
20:01and c
20:03payments from the presidencial mara castro giving a clear message that says mission accomplished
20:09after a successful four-year term that she has led in the presidency of honduras she was referring to all the important success and what she takes
20:20in within her heart is the value of her of her policies and the impacts they have had on the honduran people something that the honduran people can experience themselves
20:29let's see if we can listen to manuel celaya
20:36well especially
20:39the ones that have underdeveloped there are 25 groups
20:45and they are focused to keep
20:50simply the country with privileges for a few
20:54and not for a lot that is what we have to change in the country
21:02no no way
21:04he looked but
21:07tell him that we are waiting for him
21:10well we are going to continue following up everything that is happening right now in honduras as we have been informed during the day the general elections we were listening as
21:18we both the president somara castro and the general coordinator of the liberal party and former president manuel celaya as both exercise their right to vote here in catacamas in olam
21:20olancho
21:24where their voting centers where they were scheduled to go and exercise their right to vote
21:30and we are going to continue following up everything that is happening right now in honduras as we have been informed during the day the general elections we were listening as both the president somara castro and the general coordinator of the liberal party and former president manuel celaya as both exercise their right to vote here in catacamas in
21:46olam olancho where their voting centers where they were scheduled to go and exercise their right to vote
21:54is
21:55both both the president somara castro and manuel celaya now live in the voting center after exercising their right
22:01somara castro gave a clear message as he after she voted saying that the mission was accomplished to her in
22:08term but now it's not over as the country needs to continue and the path of continuity follows
22:13the re-foundation project that if elected will be led by rizzi moncada for the next four years as the
22:20nation continues to move forward it seems that somara castro might be often speaking as she leaves let's
22:27see if we have sounds of what she's saying
22:39as we were saying both the president somara castro and general coordinator manuel celaya have exercised
22:52their right to vote here at this voting center in catacamas in olancho and now they are leaving the voting
22:57center while they are still addressing speaking probably with some of the people of the people that
23:02have gathered here and the journalists that are gathered here in this voting center as they exercise the
23:07democrat right as we were saying somara castro said that now the the mission is to continue to
23:12continue working on what has already been built she's saying that she was very proud of what has been
23:17achieved under her presidency as the country began to refound itself since 2021 with a new policy for the new
23:24government as the country rescues democracy in 2021 with the triumph of president somara castro defeating the
23:30bipartisan model that was installed and from after the 2009 coup attack against former president manuel celaya
23:38and then then through electoral frauds stole the elections in 2013 and 2017 let's listen to the
23:45president who is speaking in the left of our screen let's listen
23:48well we don't have we don't have the sound of the president as we're saying there she's addressing
24:01the media that is present at this voting center but we don't have unfortunately the sound vote as we
24:08were saying she was referring to the value of the policies that were implemented and how the country has
24:13grown through following the refoundation path in many sectors she was referring to the road infrastructure
24:20that has been completely renewed in the country she was referring to the different productive sectors as
24:26well the production of the nation that has also increased favoring of close the economic development
24:32she also referred to and this is one of her main was one of her main goals in her campaign as in her run
24:40up for the presidency which was the health sector and is the with the construction of over 60 general
24:47hospitals and clinics for intensive care to provide the honduran people with the with the health service
24:53that they deserve and that was much needed since it was complete the honduran people had been abandoned
25:00for those years that took place between 2009 and 2021 with the policies let's listen to the president
25:10that is what the people deserves peace and tranquility to go to the appalling stations freely and to vote
25:23and to wait to to be informed through the counting of the acts which the results are
25:31in this is the command of the people in this school in this neighborhood then what is important are the acts
25:59that counting is done here
26:04and concluded and i would like to be clear with this
26:20all what was in my hands to cc comes to our country was carried out to tell you that when it was signed
26:32the uh the deal with the united nations the agreement was that this deal was gonna be signed at 9 a.m
26:43i arrived 15 tonight and i was sitting there in a hall waiting
26:51until they could see me 5.30 in the afternoon
27:02that was one of the most important facts where i have shown the interest you can imagine a president
27:12the president there was some to a meeting for to the act of signing with a established time at 9 a.m and i
27:25arrived before and made me wait till five i didn't move from there there was no water there was no food but i
27:35stayed over there waiting because that was my commitment to keep the decisive calm and painfully
27:45they made us sign an agreement a convenience agreement not to give the details that i hope that sometime they
27:57can emerge where we can say the readings of every one of the accomplishment that we gave for cc to come to our
28:09country and for the justice the the law of tribute justice i we hope that they is going to be proved in the congress
28:19all the projects all the projects that are taken are carried out in all country and i hope that there are
28:26not any just quintising here but the important thing in the all this is if we can just want to do more projects
28:38that we have to do more projects at the end only to report in october paid 11 000 millions
28:56of the doubts that was left the last government only i want to listen you to listen the figures
29:0511 million lies we pay last month from this last month what happened if that funds were invest in in works
29:20that the people is demanding then how many how many works could be done with this
29:35after exercising her right to vote uh providing more statements as well after a science or right
29:41to vote saying that the honduran people now has the opportunity to choose to continue under her foundation
29:47re-foundation project and to continue moving forward the development path that has already been
29:52set in motion in the past four years and will not and now the honduran people will have the the the
29:58choice to elect what they want for the future the president was clear on the objective that
30:04were achieved during her presidency and also on the objective there some works that needs to be
30:09carried out which is like the issue of the tax of the tax system that she wanted to impose as she was
30:15referring she did everything that was in her power to achieve that objective even though it's not complete
30:22but she but she made it clear that everything that could be done she did it as as an example that she put
30:30she waited for from 9 a.m to 5 p.m and is for a meeting that was established she is offering statements let's continue listening
30:47accomplishing all expectations
30:49i haven't been i think that's the way i have value it the team that work with me in the government the results
31:03i i so i can assess she was saying president samara castro said that she feels very very proud of her of the
31:11work that was done in the past four years saying that she accomplished her main goals during this presidency of
31:18our campaign as we were saying before in different sectors as has to do with economy health social
31:23welfare the infrastructure of nation and energy and the energy sector as well we must remember that
31:29during samara castro's presidency she established a new policy so that the low-income families don't have
31:36to don't have to pay for energy service and all these different social welfare policies that have been implemented
31:43during these four years in honduras following the refoundation project led by samara castro since
31:492021 and then now the honduran people has the opportunity to continue on this project on this
31:54refoundation path with candidate for the liberal for the liberal party presidential candidate rizzi moncada that
32:01as we were hearing in the background here and during while president samara castro was voting
32:06in exit polls are saying that rizzi moncada is half a half a lead but of course we have to wait for
32:13the results and as presidential candidate rizzi moncada and president samara castro have said
32:18they are going to wait for the acts for the ballot for the ballot boxes the votes of the people
32:23and will not put their trust in the preliminary system as we have been reporting throughout these
32:29days before the president the electoral day let us now come to a close stay tuned with terrestrial english we'll
32:34have more updates in upcoming news briefs on everything that is happening in honduras today
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