The Honduran people, today, prepare to vote a new president, elections became the most controversial in Latin America.
About 4.800.000 inhabitants are eligible to cast their votes, but it is estimated that about one million people are outside the country, most are residenst in the United States.
There are about 13 thousand candidates for different positions, from president of the republic to aldermen and councilmen.
The candidate of the opposition Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo from Partido Nacional, one of the favorites, according to polls that were released is prevailing over the ruling Liberal Elvin Santos.
In the streets there is a huge military and police deployment to ensure public order, as the fear of disorder is increased by destabilizing actions of the so-called resistance, which belongs to the group of supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
Zelaya’s supporters called for abstention and denounced the “illegitimate and potentially fraudulent election.”
Roberto Micheletti, interim president appointed by the Congress ‘decided to retire from office for several days so as not to influence the process’.
Micheletti, Zelaya and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez are on the minds of Hondurans, not so much Brazilian President Luis Inacio “Lula” Da Silva, since he was considered hostile by the authorities in Tegucigalpa, as he hosted deposed president, Manuel Zelaya.
The daily O ‘State of Sao Paulo says that “Zelaya was planning his exile” and that “Nicaragua would be his fate.”
