The Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, will be one of the people present at the inauguration of Xiomara Castro as president-elect of Honduras on January 27. As indicated, the event will take place at the national stadium in Tegucigalpa, the country’s capital.
At the time, The lawyer congratulated her on becoming the first elected president of the Republic of Honduras. “Finally, my dear colleague and friend Xiomara, sooner or later, the people and history always do justice”wrote Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on their social networks.
According to what was anticipated by official sources, in addition to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, The presence of other important political figures such as the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, is expected. In his case, he will travel together with a delegation.
At the end of last year, who was the leftist candidate managed to prevail in the elections by more than almost 20 points over the ruling party. Specifically, Xiomara Castro added 50.2% of the votes for the Libertad y Refundación Party and left Nasry Asfura of the National Party in second place with 36.3%.
Political crisis in Honduras
Before taking office, which will represent the first international trip of Argentine politics in 2022, the Honduran territory was involved in a political crisis. In principle, everything happened at the time of electing the Board of Directors that will be in charge of managing the Congress for the next four years.
At that time, the problem began when a group of deputies from the Libertad y Refundación Party decided to vote Jorge Cálix, a member of the space, as president, and not Luis Redondo, from the Salvador Party of Honduras (PSH), as had been agreed.
Source: (FRANCE 24 Spanish)
Given this situation, 18 legislators from the political force led by Xiomara Castro were expelled from the party. In addition, the Honduran parliament was divided: one part voted unanimously for Redondo, while another assembly outside the building for Cálix.
“I recognize the Presidency of Congress headed by Deputy Luis Redondo, I invite him to my Oath with the People on January 27. I congratulate the deputies who reject 12 years of corruption networks of “Joh”, “wrote who will assume as the President of Honduras.
