Insulza rules out that elections can normalize situation in Honduras

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The OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, said Thursday that the conduct of the elections of 29 November did not normalize the situation in Honduras, where there is still no conditions for these elections are conducted.

Honduran army put at Electoral Tribunal's disposal

www.chinaview.cn  2009-10-30 07:28:11

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TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti on Thursday disposed the Armed Forcesof the country to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to facilitate the elections of Nov. 29.     During a ceremony held in a military unit in Tegucigalpa, the soldiers gave their support to guard and transport 15,269 voting boxes.     "Fulfilling a Constitutional mandate, I am setting the Armed Forces and the Police to the disposal of guaranteeing the free voting, the guard, transportation and vigilance of the electoral material," Micheletti said at the ceremony.     Honduras will host elections on Nov. 29 to choose a president, 128 deputies for the Congress, 20 for the Central American Parliament and 298 mayors.     The international community has voiced it will not recognize those elections till the political crisis in the country is solved, since it recognized ousted President Manuel Zelaya as the Constitutional president of the country.     Micheletti said during the ceremony that "voting is a social right that can not be perturbed by any internal or external will, it is threat, because simply without elections there is not democracy."     According to Micheletti the elections "have been irrationally objected and conditioned to international political interests, but the elections will be held in the foreseen date and no human will is going to make us change that aim."

Editor: Anne Tang