Weekly Report - 11 February 2016 (WR-16-06)

The Honduran national congress on 10 February managed in a fifth session to elect three of seven remaining new supreme court magistrates. The final four were expected to be chosen in a sixth session as we went to press. The renewal of the 15-strong supreme court bench, which takes places every seven years, has been particularly fraught this year as the country’s new opposition parties have refused to go along with efforts by the two traditional parties, the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) and the Partido Liberal (PL), to divvy up the posts between them, as has been the custom.