Xiomara Castro announced that if she wins the presidential elections in November, she will call for a new Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution.
Tegucigalpa, September 6 (RHC)-- In Honduras, leftist candidate Xiomara Castro announced that if she wins the presidential elections in November, she will call for a new Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution.
Electoral campaigns are heating up in Honduras ahead of the November 28th elections. The presidential candidate of the Libertad y Refundación Party, LIBRE, Xiomara Castro, made public this Sunday her government plan for the period 2022-2026.
Castro blamed the neoliberal model and capitalism for the situation of inequality and poverty existing in the Central American nation. She rejected the ideology with which the country is governed by the extreme right since the 2009 coup d'état.
She affirmed that Honduras has advanced, but towards authoritarianism, looting and plundering. And she promised to fight against corruption and narco-state.
Xiomara Castro said that the path of Democratic Socialism proposed by LIBRE is the solution to pull Honduras out of the abyss of dictatorship and inequality.
The candidate made public her desire to convene a National Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution of the Republic, as well as to issue a new Penal Code.