The Constituent comes and nobody can stop it (Fotos G. Trucchi). Source: http://nicaraguaymasespanol.blogspot.com/2010/04/la-constituyente-viene-y-nadie-la.html
voselsoberano.com | Martes 20 de Abril de 2010 17:06
TEGUCIGALPA.- Members of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP), blocked roads in different parts of the country to claim for the convocation of a National Constituent Assembly.
In the outskirts of the capital city, Tegucigalpa, around 3,000 people blocked the road that leads to the south of the country, in the community of Germania, exhorting through loudspeakers the population to sign a declaration favouring the creation of a Constituent Assembly.
Organizers expect till June 28th to collect 1.2 million signatures.
“I, ... Honduran with identity number: ..., express my sovereign will for this Declaration, which I sign freely and voluntarily in order to summon a National Constituent Assembly", was what was written in the form that participants in the demonstration were signing.
The Constituent Assembly "has to be installed with a popular majority, where we will draft and approve a new Constitution of the Republic which guarantees in an effective way the collective and individual fundamental rights of Hondurans, democratizing in a participative way political, economic, cultural and social life of the country, " it added.
Organizers expect to collect for June 28th, first anniversary of the political crisis, 1.2 million signatures, Juan Barahona, coordinator of the front, told AFP during the protest.
Zelaya was deposed and ousted on June 28th, 2009 by the military in alliance with the rest of the State powers, businessmen, churches and other influential political sectors.
The Honduran ex- president was accussed of 18 crimes, amongst them treason, for intending to change the Constitution.
“We are also demanding the return of Zelaya and Father Andrés Tamayo, collaborator of the ex president, of Salvadorian nationality-"who were ousted by the oligarchy, " added Barahona.
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