Honduras denounces plans to boycott presidential election

[Judi Lynn]

Nov 29, 2009, 5:30 GMT
Honduras denounces plans to boycott presidential election


Tegucigalpa - The de facto government urged Hondurans to vote peacefully this weekend, and denounced plans to boycott the election that is considered illegitimate by former president Manuel Zelaya and some countries in the region.

Interim President Roberto Micheletti, who took office June 28 after a coup ousted Zelaya, accused Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez of exerting 'enormous influence' to disrupt the election.

'Hugo Chavez will not stop, he will continue trying to disrupt the right of Honduras to be free, through the president of Nicaragua and other leaders of South American countries that follow his line,' Micheletti said.

He urged voters to turn out in force Sunday and reject the acts of violence that have occurred in recent months, including an explosion that left one person dead last week.

'Let's have a massive turnout, we are going to elect a new president but we will have to support him because there will be enormous influence to attempt to boycott the process,' he said.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. "Honduras" denounces the boycott? The golpistas are not "Honduras," and have no right

to speak for the country or its people.

I'd say the Honduran people are speaking for themselves today, with (as reported by rabs) a 75% boycott of the election. That is "Honduras" speaking, and APPROVING the boycott.

We'll see if that number holds up. I don't know what its source is. It will be very difficult to trust any numbers in this election, after the golpistas are done with them. We can't expect John McCain's "International Republican Institute"--which has funneled $43 million of US taxpayer dollars to the golpistas rightwing political groups in Honduras--to monitor these fascist murderers and call them on padding the vote, or whatever they are going to do. That's the kind of group that Clinton dragged out of the US political cesspool to "monitor" the Junta 'election"--since the Carter Center, the OAS, the EU and all other reputable election monitoring groups declined to participate.

Anyway, there is at least one report of massive non-voting to protest the Junta.

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EDIT: Rabs cites the source as follows (but no url)...

3 p.m. Honduran time

Zelaya spoke at noon and said according to reports he was getting, the abstention rate as of noon was 75 percent across the nation.

At some polling stations, there were more troops than voters. The only polling stations where lines had formed were in higher class neighborhoods where the elites support the golpistas.

Here's the thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x27192

[rabs]

2. Golpista Election Tribunal extended voting for one hour

Voting ended about nine minutes ago. There was a report from Tribunal that polling stations had run out of ink, so that people who had already voted could vote again.

But it is kinda funny, because there were hardly anyone voting in the first place. :rofl:

Resistance leader Alegria just spoke at a news conference and said abstention had been between 65 percent and 70 percent.

In the 2004 election when Zelaya won, the abstention rate was 46 percent.

Alegria said the vote had been a total rejection of the golpistas and of both the National and Liberal presidential candidates, and the three other minor candidates.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Thanks for the info, rabs! Get ready for Lanny Davis to start pulling stats out of his ass

on how a 30% to 40% voter turnout is legit.

Oh God, I can HEAR Jim DeMint saying it! And the whole chorus!