Maribel Espinoza: Libre Party Skirts Law to Appoint Attorney General (Spanish)
Maribel Espinoza—a Honduran congresswoman of the Salvador Party—contends that Xiomara Castro’s socialist Libre Party is on a mission to control every branch of the state. She explains that Libre congressmen have violated the Honduran Constitution and the Public Ministry Law with their appointment of a new attorney general. The decision has been in stalemate since August, so the past appointee, Daniel Sibrián, has remained in his position past his planned departure. Article 205 of the Constitution establishes that Congress must gather at least 86 votes out of 128 members (a two-thirds…
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