No Future Predicted for Honduras
Elections
Tegucigalpa -
The Honduras political crisis puts in
jeopardy the general elections foreseen for
the end of this year, which will lack future
without the restoration of the
constitutional order, sentences today local
daily Tiempo.
By the way events are developing, "what is
in risk for the momento is the election
process that definitely has no future if at
least the constitutional order is not
restored," says the newspaper.
While normalization of the state of law
keeps being postponed, also there will be "a
severe deterioration of the certainty there
will be general elections," summoned for
next November 29, alerts the editorial.
The Roberto Micheletti regime, it recalls,
maintains its denial to accept the so-called
San Jose Agreement, that is, the plan
presented by Costa Rica president Oscar
Arias, as mediator in the conflict unleashed
here after the military coup of June 28.
According to Tiempo, the coupists seem to be
ready to maintain that stand until "a few
days before general elections."
In such conditions, adds the analysis, "what
citizenry would reclaim is the calling for a
constituent assembly and, thus, really solve
the political crisis and set the
constitutional bases for national
reconciliation."
If the forecast results true, the final
effect of the coup d'Etat would be
"completely contrary to its main objective"
in order to prevent the practice of
citizens'will, considers the editorial.
The military coup occurred the same day in
which the government of president Manuel
Zelaya would apply a survey to know if the
people supported the consultation at the
polls to convoke the Constituent Assembly
and make up a new Great Charter, explains
the paper.
Based on the coup, it sentences, the
political institutions in this Central
American nation suffer "a collapse."
This time, ponders Tiempo daily, "it has
nothing to do as in other occasions, with
the transfer of voters from one party to
another, but the abandonement of party
affiliation" due to the participation of its
leaders in the coup and the direct support
to the de facto regime. |
