00:00Now we go to Honduras. The conservative powers that govern the country today seek to eliminate their main opposition, excluding
00:07the Libre Party from electoral power and even threatening to outlaw it.
00:12Gerardo Torres Zelaya will offer more details from Tegucigalpa.
00:16The National Congress impeached Councillor Marlon Ochoa and Magistrate Mario Morazan, the Libre Party's representatives of the National Electoral Council
00:25and the Electoral Court, respectively, more than a month ago.
00:28According to law, the replacement should have already been chosen, but it appears that the ruling National Party is unwilling
00:35to respect Libre's right to representation on these bodies.
00:41What's happening in the National Congress after political trials against Councillor Marlon Ochoa and Magistrate Mario Morazan is a circus.
00:50And what has prevailed, they are shoddy negotiations being carried out by the two-party system to remove the representation
00:57of liberty and refundation.
00:59We won it all, the polls, which has already been in government and is one of the majority forces.
01:05And they want to do it with a discourse of depoliticizing the electoral body, but only will Libre.
01:16Alan Alvarenga has served as a minister of state and has an extensive experience in the country's electoral bodies.
01:23However, according to the Evaluation Committee, he lacks the unnecessary qualification and is therefore uneligible.
01:30The criteria used to select eligible candidates is unclear.
01:34These evaluations or processes taking place in the National Congress are not based on the qualifications, skills, or aptitudes of
01:44the candidates.
01:45They are selecting people based on what is convenient for the two-party system.
01:50There is no evaluation or assessment or skills or knowledge what exists.
01:54There are negotiations and deals between the two parties.
01:59The Libre party called an emergency meeting of its national coordination team and its deputies to define a series of
02:07pressure and protest actions between the National Congress and on the street to prevent a loss of their right to
02:14have representatives in the electoral bodies.
02:17They are clear.
02:18Libre will continue to pressure and will continue to intensify these types of protests until we paralyze the nation or
02:24Congress, if necessary.
02:26A cabinet by any means necessary as a caucus, we are ready to take all risks that must be assumed
02:33to defend this right that legally belongs to the Libre party.
02:38Democracy in Honduras is under threat as those who came into power with fraud are unwilling to risk losing it
02:44again.
02:44The Libre party has vowed to fight to participate in equal terms.
02:48For Telesur in English from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Gerardo Torres Zelaya.
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