Dueling sessions of the newly-elected Congress in Honduras selected different sets of leaders, threatening President-elect Xiomara Castro’s ability to carry out promised reforms to battle poverty and insecurity.
Supporters of Liberty and Refoundation Party gather in support of Honduras' President-elect Xiomara Castro in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Castro has seen her prospects of a successful administration take a hit even before she's been inaugurated, as a battle for leadership of the newly elected Congress devolved into shouting and shoving among her own allies on Friday.
But a sizable bloc of deputies from her own Liberty and Refoundation party rebelled against her attempt to build a legislative majority by promising leadership of Congress to the allied party of her vice president. That split threatens to give control of the legislature back to National and Liberal Parties that had traded the presidency for generations.
Political analyst Josué Murillo said the dissident legislators “are really pursuing their own private interests, whether it be a personal ego thing or an unbridled appetite for power,” and said the divided Congress could prove to be “a stone in the shoe” for Castro’s administration. The conflict alarmed U.S. diplomats in Honduras, who tweeted “a call on the political actors to maintain calm, establish dialogue, abstain from violence and provocative rhetoric.”
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