Honduras: Rixi Moncada Calls for Popular Vigilance in the Face of Right-Wing Fraud Attempts

The presidential candidate of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre), Rixi Moncada, warned of attempts by the right-wing opposition to sabotage the Nov. 30 general election and vowed firmness in the face of what she called an attempted fraud.

During a mass rally in Juticalpa, Olancho department, held on Sunday, Moncada sent a strong message to his contenders, Nasry Asfura (National Party) and Salvador Nasralla (Liberal Party). “Don’t even dare to want to steal the victory from the popular resistance and the Honduran people,” said the candidate.

In her speech, the candidate made a retrospective of the recent political history of Honduras, in which she accused the National and Liberal parties of being behind the 2009 coup d’état against former President Manuel Zelaya and the “electoral frauds of 2013 and 2017”, in which they snatched the victory from the people. today represented by the Libre party, she said.

“If they try a new fraud, they will see us lit up like the largest volcano in the history of Honduras,” said Moncada, who recalled the social protest of 2017 that, he pointed out, left more than 22 young people murdered.

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The favorite in the polls referred to the recent audios released by the Public Prosecutor’s Office that would reveal a conspiracy by right-wing sectors to alter the electoral results. In view of this, he called on the members and supporters of his political force to take care of the polling stations to prevent what he called a “macabre and sinister plan.”

Moncada assured that his party is prepared to face any irregularity and called on citizens to remain vigilant and participate in the defense of democracy. “With 13 days to go before the elections, victory is ours,” he concluded.

More than 6.5 million Hondurans are called to the polls on November 30 to elect the next President, three presidential appointees, 298 mayors, 128 deputies to the National Congress and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament

(Telesur) by HGV