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Honduras: Prison for Anti-Coup Candidates
TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran de-facto
government announced Wednesday presidential
elections must go ahead as scheduled on
November 29, even if considered
"unconstitutional", threatening to imprison
those who do not take part in this process.
According to the substitute magistrate of
the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE Denis
Gomez, all those candidates that abandon
elections days before may face prison
sentences of at least four or six years.
TSE, institution that supported the coup
perpetrated in June 28, referred to the
articles 209 and 210 of the constitution,
threatening those opposing elections run by
a coup government in Honduras.
Hundreds of candidates applying for
different public positions, among them two
running for presidency, announced their
withdrawal from an electoral process with
neither legal validity nor security of
transparency.
National Front against the coup said in a
cable there is no way they can have
elections if Honduras Constitutional
President Manuel Zelaya isnâ�Öt returned.
The Front, embracing several popular
sectors, announced pacific demonstrations in
several areas to boycott any coup-sponsored
elections.
On the other hand, the leader of the
de-facto regime Roberto Micheletti rejected
once more the return of Zelaya to power and
said he will negotiate a way out to the
crisis after elections take place on
November 29. |
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