Resistance in
Honduras calls for abstention from elections
TEGUCIGALPA,
November 16.— The National Front against the Coup in
Honduras has reiterated its call to abstain from
voting in the November 29 elections, because it
considers them an attempt to legitimize the coup
regime dictatorship.
According to Prensa Latina, members of the
Resistance once again carried out a sit-in in Plaza
La Merced, adjacent to the Legislative Palace, to
demand the restoration of constitutional order and
of the legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya.
Juan Barahona, the Front’s general coordinator,
insisted that the elections, organized by those who
have usurped power via arms, are illegal and
fraudulent.
Barahona affirmed that street mobilizations will
continue until democratic order is restored, Zelaya
is returned to power, and a national constituent
assembly has been convened.
Since early November, members of the Front’s
popular and political forces have been organizing
daily demonstrations in front of Congress, the power
responsible for deciding whether or not to restore
Zelaya, and they are condemning the complicity of
congress members with the military coup and its
attempts to validate the break with constitutional
order via the illegal November 29 elections.
Barahona reaffirmed that not one member of the
Resistance will go to the polls that day, because
they do not have any candidates in those elections.
