Former Honduran president Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, coordinator of the Libertad y Refundación (Libre, left) party, denied that the country’s main opposition group is seeking confrontation in the November 28 elections.
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“From us we are ready and there is no threat that could provoke us. We are the most interested in having massive and transparent elections. Confrontation is not desirable, “Zelaya assured international observers.
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Zelaya, deposed in June 2009 by a coup, expressed Libre’s position in meetings with the observation missions of the Organization of American States, the European Union and the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean. Sputnik
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“We call on people to vote quietly, early and massively. You who are observers, our request is that you raise your voice when you see any irregularity, ”declared Zelaya, whose wife, Xiomara Castro, is running as a candidate for the presidency of Honduras por Libre.
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Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, head of the European observer mission, recognized Libre’s calls for calm and peace in the process, marked by violence, which claimed the lives of several dozen political actors this year.
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