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Photo: TSE magistrates made symbolic delivery of party registration over the stage platform after formal event at the national headquarters of the institution in Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa. March 15, 2012. An authentic people’s party was seen near the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) on Thursday where militants and supporters of the National Front of People's Resistance (FNRP) gathered to cheer and celebrate the birth of its political branch that took place as a formal event at the TSE building.

The TSE allowed the registration of the new party Partido Libertad y Refundación (Freedom and Refoundation, LIBRE), led by former president Manuel Zelaya, to become the seventh political institution in the country.

From early hours and from all over the country thousands of resistance members arrived following a call by FNRP’s National Coordination Committee which on Tuesday received notice from TSE authorities confirming recognition of the party as a new political institution fully registered and qualified to participate in the upcoming elections.

During its General Assembly of Delegates in June, 2011, the FNRP decided to create a political instrument with which to confront the traditional political parties that represent the business elite. With the birth of LIBRE the Honduran people in general and the resistance in particular predicts the end of the duopoly that has ruled the country so far. 

Inside the TSE building, the members of the National Coordination Committee of the FNRP through its general coordinator, former president Manuel Zelaya, undertook formal reception of the documents. In a gesture of spontaneity and upon request of the party’s representatives, the magistrates accepted to do the symbolic delivery of documents outside the building over the rally stage platform.

Last October, the FNRP presented as part of the process, the charter of the new party, its electoral plans for the upcoming elections, and evidence of existent organizational structures in the municipalities of Honduras.

LIBRE party’s slogan is “the revolution is inevitable in Honduras” and a chart of principles has been drafted to establish its political approach and reaffirm its socialist commitment.

On the other hand, all five political streams within the party are proposing Xiomara Castro, wife of Zelaya, as the only candidate to the presidency. Castro did not attend the event due to medical leave.

Last week, the TSE approved the request of registry of Partido Anticorrupción (PAC) that postulates television announcer Salvador Nasralla for the Presidency of the Republic.

Until then, the Liberal, National, Innovation and Unity (PINU), Christian Democracy (DC) and Democratic Unification (UD) parties were legally enrolled.

Source: National Front of People's Resistance