Et af Mellemamerikas fattigste lande – med verdens højeste mordrate – kan gå hen og få en kvindelig præsident næste år, oven i købet konen til en folkevalgt præsident, som blev kuppet i 2009 til international fordømmelse.
Xiomara Castro is hoping to occupy the post her husband once held. Primary elections have been held in Honduras, with three political parties choosing their candidates for next year’s general and presidential polls, BBC online reports Monday.
Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted former President Manuel Zelaya, was elected unopposed as the presidential candidate for the Libre party. Mr Zelaya, who returned from exile in 2011, is seeking a seat in Congress.
Sunday’s primaries were held to select candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, as well as for Congress and municipal posts.
Results indicated that Mauricio Villeda was the Liberal Party’s choice, while Juan Orlando Hernandez was set to be the National Party’s candidate in the 2013 November election.
Ms Castro will be the candidate of the Liberty and Refoundation Party, also known as Libre.
The party was formed in the wake of the coup in June 2009 that ousted her husband.
At the November 2013 election voters will choose a successor to Porfirio Lobo of the National Party.
Mr Lobo was elected a few months after Mr Zelaya was toppled from office amid a crisis triggered by his refusal to cancel a referendum on constitutional change. His removal left Honduras politically isolated for several months.
