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The National Electoral Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional Electoral) is the highest electoral authority, both at the administrative and jurisdictional level in the Republic of Honduras. It was created through constitutional reforms in January 2019, supplanting the previous Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( Spanish : Tribunal Supremo Electoral ).
Honduras National Congress has 128 members (diputados); they serve four-year terms. Honduras elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature . The President of Honduras is elected for a four-year term by the people by a simple majority of valid votes (nulls and blanks excluded).
The President of Honduras is elected by plurality, with the candidate receiving the most votes in a single round of voting declared the winner. [2] The 128 members of the National Congress are elected by open list proportional representation from 18 multi-member constituencies based on the departments ranging in size from one to 23 seats. [3]
Primary elections in Honduras represent the mechanism used in that country by each political party to choose their candidates for the general presidential elections. These are held on the third year of the current President's mandate, specifically on the second Sunday of March, every four years [ a ] .
Among the positions being contested was the President of Honduras, head of state and head of government of Honduras, to replace Juan Orlando Hernández from the National Party. Also up for election were the 128 deputies of the National Congress , 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament , 298 mayors and 298 vice mayors, as well as 2,092 ...
The President of Honduras is elected by plurality, with the candidate receiving the most votes in a single round of voting declared the winner. [10] The 128 members of the National Congress are elected by open list proportional representation from 18 multi-member constituencies based on the departments ranging in size from one to 23 seats. [ 11 ]
National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras, PNH), founded 1918. Dominated Honduran politics from 1933 to 1957. Liberty and Refoundation (Libertad y Refundación, LIBRE), founded 2011 by a coalition of leftist organizations opposed to the 2009 coup. Liberal Party of Honduras (Partido Liberal de Honduras, PLH), founded 1891.
In January 2014, the government of Honduras approved a general budget of 183,635,281,000 lempiras ($9 billion), allocated as follows: 179.681 million for the executive branch 1.864 million for the judicial branch