Hondurans Demand a National
Assembly
TEGUCIGALPA - The National Front of Popular
Resistance of Honduras (FNRP) will carry out
demonstrations all over the country from
Tuesday on in order to call for a
Constituent Assembly.
Demonstrators will march from El Loarque
square, in Comayagüela, to the headquarters
of the National Congress, where they will
also demand full guarantees for the return
of president Manuel Zelaya, ousted by the
last June 28 coup d'etat.
According to the FNRP coordinator, Juan
Barahona, similar demonstrations will be
staged at all the country's departments, in
order to recollect one million 250,000
signatures to demand reforms for the current
Constitution.
The Constitution, in force since 1982, has
seven articles that cannot be changed, thus
preventing to carry out deep changes to end
with poverty and inequality.
Soldiers wearing hoods, and in conspiracy
with the oligarchy, kidnapped Zelaya and
took him out the country by force when he
decided to call for a referendum on that
issue.
Patricia Rodas, the foreign minister during
Zelaya's government, has insisted that it is
necessary to call for a national Constituent
Assembly to reinstall the institutional
order in the country.
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