Liberty and Refoundation

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Political party in Honduras

Liberty and Refoundation (Spanish: Libertad y Refundación, Libre; libre is the Spanish word for "free") is a left-wing political party in Honduras.[8] Libre was founded in 2011 by the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a leftist coalition of organizations opposed to the 2009 coup.[8]

Xiomara Castro, the wife of former president Manuel Zelaya who was deposed in the 2009 coup, was the presidential candidate of the party in the 2013 presidential election; Zelaya was not allowed to run for a second term under the constitution. Castro took second place in the four-way race, receiving approximately 29 percent of the vote behind Juan Orlando Hernández's 34 percent.[9] Castro has stated that if she won the 2021 presidential election, she would promote democratic socialism and ask the National Congress to draft a new constitution.[4]

At least eighteen Libre pre-candidates, candidates, family members, and campaign leaders were killed between June 2012 and October 2013.[10] Additionally, it is strongly opposed to free market capitalism and the neo-liberal economic model, and maintains a long-term goal of "establishing an alternative economic system."[4][5]

On 28 November 2021, Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of Liberty and Refoundation, won 53% of the votes in the presidential election to become the first female president of Honduras.[11]

Factions

There are at least five factions within Liberty and Refoundation.[12]

  • 28 June Movement (Movimiento 28 de junio)
  • People's Resistance Movement (Movimiento Resistencia Popular, MRP)
  • Organized People in Resistance (Pueblo Organizado en Resistencia, POR)
  • People's Refoundation Force (Fuerza de Refundación Popular, FRP)
  • 5 July Movement (Movimiento 5 de julio)


List of political leaders

No. Image Name
(Birth-Death)
Term in office Elections Note
Start term End term Time in office
1 Manuel Zelaya
(born 1952)
26 June 2011 Incumbent 12 years, 271 days 2013 General Election
Candidate : Xiomara Castro
896,498 / 3,115,448
2017 General Election
Candidate : Salvador Nasralla
1,360,442 / 3,284,704
2021 General Election
Candidate : Xiomara Castro
1,716,793 / 3,358,053

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election Party candidate Votes % Result
2013 Xiomara Castro 896,498 28.78% Lost Red XN
2017 Salvador Nasralla (with PINU) 1,360,442 41.42%
2021 Xiomara Castro 1,716,793 51.12% Elected Green tickY

National Congress

Election Party leader Votes % Seats +/– Position Government
2013 José Manuel Zelaya Rosales 756,839 27.51%
37 / 128
Increase 37 Increase 2nd In opposition
2017 1,360,442 23.44%
30 / 128
Decrease 7
2021 40.23%
50 / 128
Increase 20 Increase 1st In government

See also

References

  1. ^ "Provável primeira mulher presidente de Honduras promete "socialismo democrático"" [Honduras' likely first female president pledges "democratic socialism"]. CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ Paley, Dawn (10 December 2013). "In Honduras Election, the People's Will Is Hushed but Not Silenced". The Nation. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ^ Nery Chaves García (8 November 2019). "Honduras y un progresismo que no despega". CELAG. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Libre propone conducir a Honduras al socialismo y derogar la constitución" [Libre proposes to lead Honduras to socialism and repeal the constitution]. Diario El Heraldo (in Spanish).
  5. ^ a b Corona, Tania. "Libre insiste en una nueva Constitución" [Libre insists on a new Constitution]. www.laprensa.hn (in Spanish).
  6. ^ García, Jacobo (15 March 2021). "El triste panorama electoral de Honduras". El País. Retrieved 25 July 2021. La opción que se identifica más con la izquierda, los herederos del movimiento que coqueteaba con el chavismo y que encabezó Manuel Zelaya hasta el golpe de Estado de 2009, está aglutinada en el partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) en el que su esposa Xiomara Castro tienen más posibilidades que nadie de ser la candidata presidencial. Su principal propuesta es la transformación del país mediante una nueva Constitución.
  7. ^ "Once partidos hondureños minoritarios presentan a candidatos para elecciones". EFE. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021. El partido Libre, de izquierda, fundado en 2011, buscará por tercera vez la presidencia del país.
  8. ^ a b Frank, Dana (22 May 2012). "Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?". The Nation. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  9. ^ "El oficialista Juan Orlando Hernández encabeza la elección de Honduras" [The official Juan Orlando Hernández leads the election of Honduras]. CNN Mexico. 24 November 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  10. ^ Karen Spring (21 October 2013). "Context of the Honduran Electoral Process 2012: Incomplete list of Killings and Armed Attacks Related to Political Campaigning in Honduras" (PDF). Rights Action. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  11. ^ "Honduras elected its first female president, Xiomara Castro". NBC News. 1 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Movimientos de tres partidos políticos a la cacería de votos". La Tribuna (in Spanish). 20 May 2012. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014.
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