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Weekly Report - 30 May 2013 (WR-13-21)

HONDURAS: Gearing up for November

The race for general elections on 24 November is officially underway in Honduras. On 23 May the supreme electoral court (TSE) president, David Matamoros, announced the start of the campaign period for the contest in which nine parties will compete, four of which have emerged in the aftermath of the June 2009 coup d’état. While polls should be taken with a pinch of salt, not least given the high proportion of undecided voters, the prospects of both the traditional parties – President Porfirio Lobo’s Partido Nacional (PN) and the Partido Liberal (PL) are currently less than promising. This could be a factor in Lobo’s willingness to apply a new (and controversial) approach to tackling a key voter concern – security.

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