LatinNews Daily Report - 16 November 2012

POLITICS | G-16 calls for transparent and democratic primaries.  The so- G-16 donor group, led by the US ambassador to Honduras, Lisa Kubiske, called on Honduran political parties and the national electoral court (TSE) to ensure respect for the principles of transparency and responsibility in the national primary elections on Sunday (18 November), in which all the county’s political parties will hold simultaneous votes to select candidates, including presidential, for the scheduled November 2013 general elections. Some doubts have already emerged about the process, with complaints about missing ID cards in the city of Comayagua.  Yesterday (15 November), the state’s attorney general, Luis Alberto Rubí, held a meeting with the TSE to discuss measures to avoid any disruption to the process. The G16, founded in 1998, comprises 10 developed countries: Germany, Canada, Spain, the US, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands; and six multilateral organizations: the Central American Bank of Economic Integration, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the European Commission, the United Nations Development Program and the International Monetary Fund.

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