In August, Honduran President Xiomara Castro broke the extradition treaty with the United States, according to the U.S. to prevent him from using it against military personnel loyal to him and facilitate an attempted coup d’état.
Honduras’ electoral authority convened on Sundayto the primary elections on 9 March for the general election of November 2025,in the midst of the crisis at the end of the extradition treaty signed with the United States.
“From the National Electoral Council (…) I call on the legally registered political parties to primary elections to be held on Sunday, March 9” of 2025, called the president of the electoral authority, Ana Hall.
Elections are called in the midst of a crisis that broke out andA. 28 when leftist President Xiomara Castro eliminated the extradition treaty of 1912, but that since 2014 allowed the surrender to the United States of half a hundred drug traffickers, including former President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) who was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
“Honduras goes through difficult times, everything indicates that the context of the elections will be complex in a polarized country where political adversaries make themselves points, with or without reason, that influence to generate an undesirable environment and doubts and tension,” Hall summarizes.
Castro, who took office on January 27, 2022, has to deliver on the same date as 2026.
Three gamesThey are registered in the process of electing candidates who will participate in the general elections on the last Sunday of November 2025.
The ruling party Libertad y Refoundación (Free, left) takes the newly appointed Minister of Defense as the main candidate for the presidency,Rixi Moncada,A lawyer who also served as finance minister.
For his part, the right-wing National Party (PN, right) presents as main candidates the former mayor of TegucigalpaNasry Asfura,and aAna Garcíawife of jailed former president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Meanwhile, the former presidential candidate and television presenter are running for the Liberal Party (PL, right).Salvador Nasralla,and the MemberJorge Cálix.
Both recently joined the PL, Nasralla, disassocating himself from the government as presidential appointee (vice president) due to disagreements in decision-making and Cálix also separated himself from Libre because he felt marginalized, he explained.
Nearly six million Hondurans are called to the primary elections.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo