Tegucigalpa, June 29 (RHC)-- The ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) of Honduras commemorated this Saturday the 16th anniversary of the 2009 coup d'état carried out by the military in collusion with conservative sectors against then-President Manuel Zelaya.
The commemorative events officially began the day before with a large popular concert at the Olympic Village in Tegucigalpa, featuring live performances by the Honduran group Café Guancasco and the talented Cuban singer-songwriter Raúl Torres.
As a culmination of the days of commemoration of the tragic event, members of Libre, a group led by Zelaya, will gather this Saturday in front of the Presidential Palace, where President Xiomara Castro will preside over an official ceremony before marching to the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE).
In addition to commemorating the breach of constitutional order 16 years ago, the peaceful demonstration will reach the CNE to protest against possible fraud in the general elections on November 30, which has been denounced by the highest authorities of the progressive group.
At a press conference, the ruling party's presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, accused the right-wing National (PN) and Liberal (PL) parties of plotting this attempt to falsify the upcoming elections.
According to Moncada, the two-party system, represented by nationalists and liberals, intends to replicate in the 2025 general elections a results transmission system similar to the one both groups imposed in the controversial 2013 and 2017 elections.
The presidential candidate denounced that the PN and PL were plotting this scam through their two representatives on the CNE, made up of the three majority parties in this Central American nation.
She linked these alleged maneuvers to a strategy to manipulate the minutes of the polling stations through a procedure called "second public transcription," which she considered an illegal "human interference" that would violate the Honduran Constitution.
“The Libre party supports the denunciations of the incoming president, Rixi Moncada, against the coup attempt at electoral fraud. Never again fraud,” former president Zelaya stated on his social media account X.
The general coordinator of Libre denounced that the coup against him “set back and plunged Honduran society, especially the poorest sectors, into a deplorable state of violence, looting, drug trafficking, backwardness, contempt, and indignation.”
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
