President of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti casting his vote. Photos: El Heraldo, HondurasNonetheless an atmosphere of political tension following the removal from office of then President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, a total of 4.6 million of Hondurans out of its total population of 7.326.496 were called on this day of the general elections in the capital of the nation, Tegucigalpa.
"The threats, bombs and gunfire were insufficient to prevent citizens leave their homes to vote," said the President, Roberto Micheletti, after exercising his political duty. The president has done that civic duty minutes after 9:00 am at a school in El Progreso, Yoro, in the company of family, friends and presidential security. "Let's go and vote, demonstrate the world that we are different, our duty is to build a better country," he said during his trip to the polls.
Regardless the fact that the international community has threatened in not recognizing the results of these elections and an unprecedented media campaign by the repudiation to the constituted authorities from 28 June, the mission appears to go uphill.
The OAS suspended Honduras after the so called ‘coup’ last June, but since then had failed to reach common positions to the crisis in the country. Asked about the support and the recognition of the election expressed by Costa Rica, Panama and Peru, Insulza, general secretary of the OAS said, "I understand that nobody is considering recognizing the de facto government, that governments are talking about after 27 January", when making possession of the elected government on Sunday.
Immersed in the worst political crisis in its modern history, the new authorities in Honduras relieve the executive and legislature, in a race where the organizers are in the moral and ethical obligation to ensure that they are transparent and clean. No matter who wins, what matters is that Hondurans will be manifested in the elections.
"The threats, bombs and gunfire were insufficient to prevent citizens leave their homes to vote," said the President, Roberto Micheletti, after exercising his political duty. The president has done that civic duty minutes after 9:00 am at a school in El Progreso, Yoro, in the company of family, friends and presidential security. "Let's go and vote, demonstrate the world that we are different, our duty is to build a better country," he said during his trip to the polls.
Regardless the fact that the international community has threatened in not recognizing the results of these elections and an unprecedented media campaign by the repudiation to the constituted authorities from 28 June, the mission appears to go uphill.
The OAS suspended Honduras after the so called ‘coup’ last June, but since then had failed to reach common positions to the crisis in the country. Asked about the support and the recognition of the election expressed by Costa Rica, Panama and Peru, Insulza, general secretary of the OAS said, "I understand that nobody is considering recognizing the de facto government, that governments are talking about after 27 January", when making possession of the elected government on Sunday.
Immersed in the worst political crisis in its modern history, the new authorities in Honduras relieve the executive and legislature, in a race where the organizers are in the moral and ethical obligation to ensure that they are transparent and clean. No matter who wins, what matters is that Hondurans will be manifested in the elections.
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