‘Election process under military regime’

Honduras: Despite popular rejection, election officials in Honduras announced that the campaign for general elections slated for November 29 will start next Monday.

The de facto government called to participate as a show of democracy, but the National Front against the Coup d’Etat reiterated it is unacceptable to have a process of that nature without the previous restablishment of the constitutional order.

Officials of the regime headed by Roberto Micheletti, among them the Minister of the Presidency Rafael Pineda, calle don Hondurans to attend massively to the polls in order to “express their will and say who they want for President as of next January 27, 2010.” Pineda said “there are candidates of all types and colors” and desestimated statements of those denouncing the lack of legitimacy of the polls without the previous restitution of the toppled president Manuel Zelaya and the return to the State of Law.

Several communiqu‚s of the Front warned that under the current circumstances, the electoral process is “denaturalized by the violent expulsion of President Zelaya from his post in the State.” The restitution of Zelaya “is the only way to val¡date the results of the polls, with the observance and recognition of world community.” Although there are six presidential candidates registered, at this momento many of them suffer from popular discredit due to their support or involvement with the Micheletti regime, as press analyses published here sustain.

Tegucigalpa, Prensa Latina