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Weekly Report - 01 February 2018 (WR-18-04)

HONDURAS: Hernández takes office against troubling backdrop

President Juan Orlando Hernández was sworn-in for a second term on 27 January. He becomes the first Honduran president to serve a second term since the restoration of democracy in 1982 after a creative interpretation of the constitution by the supreme court (CSJ) allowed him to seek re-election despite it being expressly outlawed. His legitimacy has been harmed further by uncertainty surrounding the validity of the 27 November elections which have spawned a series of protests, repressed by the police with dozens of fatalities. Less reported but with more serious long-term political repercussions was a budget law approved by congressional deputies denuding the public prosecutor’s office and the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih) of any power to root out official corruption.

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