Jan
Human Rights, International Meddling, Politics
Updates from Honduras After Fraudulent Presidential Elections
In the last two weeks the executive published some 80 decrees and Congress approved some 20 new laws and a great quantity of reform proposals to the Honduran legislation – that is more than in 2012 and 2013 together and hasn’t been seen since 1982! Here are some of the highlights of those reforms:
Among these reforms is one that will raise the pension age seven years, from 58 to 65.
Out of the 12,000 registered NGO’s in Honduras, 4,800 had their legal status cancelled at the end of last year.
Of all the possible changes to the Electoral Law, only one was accepted yesterday by Congress, i.e. from now on the primary and the general election will take place in the same year.
El Libertador reported that the during a gathering with Liberal mayors on Saturday ex-presidential candidate Mauricio Villeda spoke in favor of being part of the opposition: “if we want to be part of the opposition, we have to act like an opposition party; we will ally with PAC and Libre to revert the “paquetazo” (the economic and fiscal measures decided by the Nationalist Party).” The official decision with the elected congresswo/men will be made this month.
