1980 Honduran presidential election

The parliament of Honduras held a presidential election on 25 July 1980 in accordance with the transfer of power from a military junta to civilian rule, and resolved a deadlock by selecting the junta president as the civilian government's president.

As described by historians Donald and Deborah Schulz, “The Junta formally turned power over to the Constituent Assembly, but the Liberals, lacking a majority, were unable to form a government. As a way out of the impasse, it was decided that General Policarpo Paz García would stay on as interim chief of state until direct elections for a president could be held.” [1]

On 25 July the Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of Policarpo Paz García continuing in office as provisional president, pending presidential and congressional elections in 1981, for which it drafted a new electoral law. [2]

During the crisis the then presidential candidate, leader of the Movimiento Rodista and future Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova initiated a political rally under the slogans of the Revolution of Dignity (Spanish: La revolución de la dignidad,) the revolution which he would lead and which would eventually bring radical social changes, but as the further events have shown that promise has not materialized.[3][4]

References
  1. Schulz, Donald E. and Deborah Sundloff Schulz. The United States, Honduras, and the crisis in Central America. Boulder: Westview Press. 1994. Pp. 59.
  2. Schooley, Helen. Conflict in Central America. Harlow: Longman. 1987. Pp. 42.
  3. "La prometida revolución de dignidad y trabajo de Suazo no se ha materializado" as cited in Polémica, 1985.
  4. U.S. Relations with Honduras−1985. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1985. p. 12.

Bibliography

Anderson, Thomas P. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition. 1988.

Anderson, Thomas P. “Politics and the military in Honduras.” Current history 87, 533:425+ (December 1988). 1988.

Binns, Jack R. The United States in Honduras, 1980-1981: an ambassador’s memoir. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2000.

Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.

Paz Aguilar, Ernesto. “La reforma política electoral en Honduras.” Reforma política y electoral en América Latina 1978-2007. 2008. México, D.F.: UNAM.

Political handbook of the world 1980. New York, 1981.

Schooley, Helen. Conflict in Central America. Harlow: Longman. 1987.

Schulz, Donald E. and Deborah Sundloff Schulz. The United States, Honduras, and the crisis in Central America.

Vallejo Hernández, Hilario René. Crisis histórica del poder político en Honduras: 168 años de ‘Coquimbos’ y ‘Cachurecos.’ Honduras: Ultra-Graph. 1990.


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