00:00Now in Honduras, the government transition is moving forward amidst multiple legal challenges to the unfinished processes of reviewing the irregularities that occurred before, during, and after the November 30 elections, which has created an atmosphere of institutional uncertainty.
00:16Let's see more details in the following report from our colleague Karim Duarte.
00:20The formal transition process between the refounding government and the incoming government led by the National Party began with President Xiomara Castro's instruction to the Secretary of the Interior and Justice, the Civil Service, and the Secretary of Security to organize the administrative transfer.
00:41This process includes the handover and receipt of responsibilities in the state workforce, and culminates with the installation of the Board of Directors of the National Congress, the body that has the constitutional authority to swear in the new president, and confirm the incoming powers.
00:56Even if people here throw a tantrum, even if some say no, even if some believe that one congressman's vote is worth more than another's, there are no votes that are worth more or less.
01:09There are 128 votes, and the one who gets the most votes will become the president of Congress.
01:14What is happening is that we are building channels of dialogue.
01:17The country needs the Congress to be a place of peace.
01:20Honduras needs a Congress in peace.
01:22Honduras needs a Congress in peace.
01:24Political analysts have expressed concern that, just days before the inauguration, no cabinet proposed by ASFORA has been officially announced, and the transition has progressed slowly and fragmentedly amidst multiple allegations of fraud and irregularities.
01:46We see that there are many causes, reasons, and motives for which this electoral process can be declared null and void.
01:53Among them are foreign interference and threats to the population, by organized criminal groups.
01:59In addition to economic coercion, it is precisely all of these motives, reasons, and causes that lead to or result in the declaration of the invalidity of this electoral process.
02:08On the other hand, CNE Councilor Marlon Ochoa warned that the electoral process, by not changing in favor of democracy, reflects a deep decay of the state, to the point of emptying the legal and constitutional framework of its content.
02:28In his opinion, the decisions taken show that, in Honduras, the rule of law no longer prevails, but rather the imposition of force and impunity as mechanisms of power, which is why the change of government is taking place without any options.
02:41And this really reveals the rottenness in which we are sinking as a state, right?
02:48It no longer makes any sense to talk about rights, articles, or laws here.
02:54The law is dead, and that is why in my publication, I recommend that councillor throw away their law degrees and lawyer licenses, because the law no longer exists, and the only thing that exists in Honduras, is force, imposition, and impunity.
03:09To date, beyond President Castro's declaration of the start of the transition, no other state authority, including the Supreme Court of Justice and other state powers, has formally ruled on the final vote count, which deepens political uncertainty.
03:30Lo cual profundiza la incertidumbre política.
03:34Para Telesur, desde Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Karim Duarte.
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