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CENTRALAMERICANEWS
| Thursday 02
September 2010 |
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Over One
Million
Hondurans
Support
Constituent
Assembly
TEGUCIGALPA
-
The
National
Popular
Resistance
Front
has
collected
over
1.19
million
signatures
to
demand a
Constituent
Assembly
and the
safe
return
to
Honduras
of
former
President
Manuel
Zelaya.
Supporters
and
activists
are
volunteering
in this
signature-collecting
process
throughout
the
country's
18
departments,
set to
conclude
on
September
15.
"Having
reached
that
number
is
already
a
victory,
and we
are sure
we will
go far
beyond
the
minimum
goal of
1.25
million
signatures,"
Juan
Barahona,
a
coordinator
of the
front,
said.
The
collection
of
signatures
began on
April 20
for a
petition
asking
for the
draft
and
approval
of a new
constitution
that
would
guarantee
the
basic
rights
of all
Hondurans,
and
increase
participatory
democracy
in the
country,
the
document
reads.
The
current
Constitution,
in force
since
1982,
contains
seven
articles
that
cannot
be
modified,
thus
obstructing
deep
changes
need for
eradicating
poverty
and
inequity.
"Our
people
are
currently
waging a
laborious,
exhausting
battle
to lead
one
million
people
to
ratify
that
they
want a
new
social
and
economic
system,
and to
demand
my
immediate
return,"
Zelaya
said in
a
message
to the
resistance
movement.
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