This Sunday, November 28, general elections will be held in Honduras, in an electoral contest in which 14 parties and 12 presidential candidates will participate, agencies refer.
Of the 9,5 million inhabitants that Honduras has, more than 5 million have been summoned to elect a president, three vice presidents, 298 municipal mayors, 128 deputies to the local Parliament and 20 to the Central American.
Of the 12 presidential candidates, the favorites are the candidate of the Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party, Xiomara Castro, in second place Nasry Asfura, of the ruling National Party and followed by Yani Rosenthal, of the Liberal, the second opposition force, according to opinion polls.
The deadline to publish polls on voting preference expired on October 28, but according to samples released a few days after the ordinance came into effect, Castro, wife of former President Manuel Zelaya, was ahead of Asfura.
The EFE news agency reports that the outlook is uncertain because, according to analysts, no candidate among the favorites to win will accept defeat, at least between Castro and Asfura.
National and international observers
The CNE projects the attendance of seven thousand national observers from different sectors of civil society and 400 international companions from missions of the Organization of American States and the European Union, the majority of whom will attend the elections on Sunday, according to Prensa Latina.
In the days prior to the elections, a delegation from the European Parliament and around 20 diplomats from the bloc's member states accredited in Honduras and from concurrent embassies will come to the country, therefore, on November 28, the EU Electoral Mission will bring together more than 70 observers.
This group will not issue assessments during the process, but until Tuesday, when it will publicly present, from the Honduran capital, a preliminary statement with its perceptions to date and one or two months later it will notify a final report with the recommendations.
Other planned organizations are the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations and the state National Commissioner for Human Rights, which will intervene in the voting with more than 605 volunteers, in 96 percent of the national territory.
